There’s been lots of excitement about the new R Markdown feature introduced as part of knitr 0.5 and RStudio 0.96. People see R Markdown as both a simpler way to do reproducible research and as a great way to publish to the web from R. Jeromy Anglim has a nice write up on getting started with R Markdown and Marcus Gesmann describes how to embed Google Visualizations using his googleVis package.
We are just as excited about R Markdown and think there is lots more that can be done with it. We’ll be talking about this along with Yihui Xie (author of knitr) and Jeff Horner (author of R/Apache and Rook) on Tuesday June 5th in New York:
http://www.meetup.com/nyhackr/events/64279002/
At the meetup we’ll be showing the latest versions of knitr and RStudio and will be announcing some new R Markdown stuff—if you are in New York we’d love to see you there!
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May 24, 2012 at 3:29 pm
jashapiro (@jashapiro)
Will there be a webcast for those not able to make it?
May 24, 2012 at 3:31 pm
jjallaire
I’m not sure if the NYC user group does video recordings of their meetings — we’ll check with Drew and post back here when we know.
May 24, 2012 at 3:57 pm
jjallaire
Just found out the meeting will be videotaped (but not webcast). We’ll post back to the blog when the video is available.
June 5, 2012 at 10:54 pm
florian
Hi JJ,
just came back from the nyhackr meetup. Didn’t catch you afterwards at the bar, but still wanted to say thank you for the talk. I think you guys did an awesome job integrating all the knitr functionality into RStudio. The thing going back and forth from pdf to source code is really cool.
I also really appreciated your remarks about reproducible research. There’s still a long way to go from what i see in academic research. but we R getting there.
Best wishes
flo
June 5, 2012 at 11:00 pm
turbotronic
Hi JJ,
just came back from the meetup. Didn’t have a chance to talk to you at the bar, but still wanted to say thank you for the talk. I think you guys did a great job with RStudio, all the features of publishing results are amazing. Appreciated your comments on reproducible research. I think it’s paramount.
See you around next time
florian