{
  "title": "It shocks and depresses me that many of my students use Word for writing research papers, and not knitr + LaTeX. And that I continue to get code and data as email attachments, and not via github/bitbucket.",
  "date": "2018-04-12"
}

# bookdown

> **Colin Fay** (@_ColinFay; 12/1): #RStats — #NowWorking on a package that will build a markdown and bookdown on top of your {testthat} results : https://t.co/flSw95fi9x  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/984181049759617025)

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> **Robin Lovelace** (@robinlovelace; 12/1): Can Geographic Data Save the World? Looking forward to my talk at the 
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Slides, with lots of links in preparation for workshop, here: https://t.co/WpSDxR8lNi https://t.co/wDE6SokJuT  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/983978278569553920)

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> **Denis S Ivanov** (@iDenis_biology; 0/0): @old_man_chester Trying to install bookdown &amp; thesisdown using devtools::install_github() but install fails because I have a space in the name of one of the folders in the filepath of the directory I'm working in. Any tips? Tried looking on devtools git for issues, but no luck  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/984168699656470528)

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> **Matt McBee** (@TunnelOfFire; 0/0): @lewisb42 I recently wrote a book in it using the bookdown package. It is indeed awesomer.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/984072640037117953)

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# knitr

> **Shravan Vasishth** (@shravanvasishth; 12/3): It shocks and depresses me that many of my students use Word for writing research papers, and not knitr + LaTeX. And that I continue to get code and data as email attachments, and not via github/bitbucket.  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/983980636313653248)

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> **Christopher Marcum** (@csmarcum; 1/0): Gave a quick tutorial in class today on the use of Sweave, KnitR, and RMarkdown to my students. Now wondering if @overleaf will integrate the KnitR functionality previously available on @sharelatex ?  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/984151340933963777)

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> **izak dz** (@dbsleak; 0/0): Cairo font size in Knitr https://t.co/k4gPhm5wGj https://t.co/4eXHgUPVBp  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/984223247112835073)

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> **Mauro Lepore** (@mauro_lepore; 0/0): For some reason I didn't get the webinar invitation-email. But the repo is an excellent resource, and I already learned Jenny's way to produce .R files form her github_document s
>
:)
>
knitr::purl("SOME-FILE", documentation = 2) https://t.co/1G6ByeZHEV  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/984120296688046080)

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> **積ん読エンジニア** (@mrkn; 0/0): @tetsuroito フロントエンドはなんでも良いんですよね。僕は VSCode の拡張機能でやりたいなと思っています。Rails で作ってももちろん良いです。どちらにしろ、裏で動くエンジンの部分が無いので knitr 的なものが必要だなぁと思った次第です。  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/983889404711223297)

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> **積ん読エンジニア** (@mrkn; 0/0): knitr の Ruby 版があればいいのか。  [&#8618;](https://twitter.com/xieyihui/status/983884880558800896)

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