The knitr package (Xie 2016) is an alternative tool to Sweave based on a different design with more features. This document is not an introduction, but only serves as a placeholder to guide you to the real manuals, which are available on the package website https://yihui.org/knitr/1, and remember to read the help pages of functions in this package. There is a book (Xie 2015) for this package, but it may not be useful to those who prefer digging out information on the web.
Anyway, here is a code chunk that shows you can compile vignettes with knitr as well using R 3.0.x, which supports non-Sweave vignettes:
options(digits = 4)
rnorm(20)
## [1] -1.05662 1.92353 0.61728 -1.18599 0.70067 0.89497 -0.01876 -0.13030
## [9] 0.97388 -1.54652 0.01138 -0.80465 -0.34827 -1.26017 0.31048 -0.55714
## [17] -1.46293 -0.15851 -0.27592 -0.96497
= lm(dist ~ speed, data = cars)
fit = coef(fit) b
Estimate | Std. Error | t value | Pr(>|t|) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
(Intercept) | -17.579 | 6.7584 | -2.601 | 0.0123 |
speed | 3.932 | 0.4155 | 9.464 | 0.0000 |
The fitted regression equation is \(Y=-17.5791+3.9324x\).
par(mar=c(4, 4, 1, .1))
plot(cars, pch = 20)
abline(fit, col = 'red')
A scatterplot with a regression line.
e.g. the main manual and the graphics manual↩︎