An Intro to R Markdown

[@fms6306]

Thanks very much Luke. You really inspired me to move from Word to LaTeX and not looking back. Now R markdown and eventually I'll be ditching Windows/Office for Linux/Open Source. Keep doing the great work you're doing. I really enjoy your videos.

[@yash1152]

"Open Source" really?? zking open source?????

[@freezejr2000]

>linguistics degree >knows Latin >can't say “asterisks” >doesn't know what is called big kek

[@KyleSwirl]

If you are using the latest LARBS, the compilation shortcut is c. In default LARBS, the leader is a single space (" "). To open the output file, the shortcut is p.

[@0felex01]

You will also need to install the package "tk" to install R packages.

[@alphonsemarcus3650]

thank you a lot this solved my problem

[@dmtrrasljic9495]

Thank you

[@SY-me5rk]

I needed these 2 lines in vimrc. First line is for treating rmd/Rmd as markdown. autocmd BufNewFile,BufFilePre,BufRead *.rmd,*.Rmd set filetype=markdown autocmd Filetype markdown map :!Rscript -e "rmarkdown::render('%', 'pdf_document')"

[@QmVuamFtaW4]

zamn

[@TheFakeVIP]

Pandoc and RMarkdown are truely amazing tools.

[@sk8sbest]

Append "&&pkill-HUPmupdf" in your .vimrc command to have your pdf refresh automatically.

[@finster101]

I realize this video is a couple years old now but I just found your channel and subscribed, cause I am enjoying your Vim usage videos and just generally love Vim. So I would like to start using R markdown now, but the link in your video description for your .vimrc gives me a 404 error. I searched around your github stuff but was unable to find it. Please help. Thanks!

[@FKLinguista]

Good video! I've been trying to learn more R for the statistic stuff that I have to run for my research. This is very helpful. However... > runs parabola to support free software > installs RStudio

[@Riboflavaflav]

FKLinguista RStudio is FOSS and uses AGPL v3 for its license according to their support page. What is the problem with using it from a free software standpoint?

[@FKLinguista]

RiboFlava Flav I realized that, haha. I was just making a light-hearted joke along the lines of "GPLv3 is not as free as GPLv2". RKward, for example, is GPLv2 but it's not as widely-used.

[@Riboflavaflav]

FKLinguista Ok, I thought it was something like that. Sorry for making you have to explain your joke, haha.

[@FKLinguista]

RiboFlava Flav In your defense, it was a crap joke. ;)

[@ali-om4uv]

is there a way to install r markdown on windows without rstudio and run it from gvim? I'd like to use it on my work mashing wich runs.....ducks.......win7

[@fermiLiquidDrinker]

There's one thing I've never understood is how to do-- theme i3. That would be a cool video

[@channelnumber52]

I also hate that R folder in my home directory. So I download the source for R, change a line in the config file, and then I custom compile it.

[@iosifzota6314]

Hello. For anyone who's looking for command line command to compile to pdf: Rscript -e "rmarkdown::render('', 'pdf_document')" (just paste in terminal, enter and it should work)

[@husseinal-odwan4317]

Thank you so much for the informative video. I have a data analysis and clustering assignment due and I have been dreading using LaTeX because of how arcane and outdated the commands and repositories are. Cheers!

[@lucapham-trong6636]

I will create a G(roff) markdown probably. The main problem of (r)markdown is not the fact that it converts to multiple formats, but that it uses latex which is extremely bloated. Also, the debug isn't clear. We could implement a very simple debug script that tells which line in the markdown is wrong.

[@safalpiya2903]

Absolutely do it!

[@yash1152]

hi, Luca, any updates or any news?

[@peterjansen4826]

A linguist who could have studied computer science. :) Not like you have to be a master programmer to do these things but as somebody who did study something much closer to computer science I regocnize the 'type' of thinking and Luke Smith has got that more tham most of the people who actually study it. Then again, his field of linguistics (and a certain field of philosophy which involves logic) gets a lot closer to these kind of sciences with regard to anlytical thinking than that most people are aware of.

[@Moonlight-pk2st]

Sees Python code snippet. Me, a Haskell programmer: *internal screams for not using map*

[@godsendify]

Ey Luke, you should now about ctrl+x and ctrl+f to autocomplete paths in vim. Type /home in Insert Mode and while still in Insert Mode Hit the shortcuts.

[@bepolymathe5123]

Could you explain more in detail how you use rmarkdown in vim (LaTeX intégration, quotations of books, etc) ? Very usefull for students !

[@humding3r]

you like carpenter brut too? MY DUDE

[@gorye8730]

Humding3r where is it apparrent? Timestamp pls

[@c.h.7067]

sleek beard dude

[@0felex01]

And you need "filetype plugin on" in your vimrc to use autocmd, for anyone else who struggled with it.

[@rexevan6714]

wait until you start putting external image and knit it to pdf documents.

[@X1Zeth2X]

Been waiting

[@gz6616]

But do the journals you submit to accept this format? And the images just follow standard markdown?

[@TheAnimateor]

What we need!!!

[@zanaris-falador]

About time this happened ;)

[@skyhook6540]

Notification Squad! Assemble!

[@adam82s]

:D just don't hit the "Like" button/link before watching the video. ;)

[@apostleofazathoth7696]

lol nerd

[@adam82s]

mov eax, [metr1xx-4]

[@しげお-i1l]

Sadly, I'm getting errors when my RMD has non-ASCII characters, e.g. Introdução

[@alexandrodisla6285]

you didnt put the f5 to actually do the compiling.

[@M1America]

Was that a juicy fart at 8:58?!

[@cprn.]

`sudo pacman -S R` returns `error: target not found: R` nowadays. You need a lower case letter `r`.

[@Sun-po4zv]

Could you do a quick tutorial on how to setup/use Alpine?

[@andrewgrimsley6471]

Is there a way to add code without "##" being prefixed to the output? Or changing ## to >>?

[@gorye8730]

Andrew Grimsley RTFM

[@TheInfinityReaper]

Awesome video, can you do more on R Markdown?

[@absolutraj]

When you have a video titled "Intro to R Markdown," you should probably start with an overview of what R Markdown is.

[@noelmatias4260]

I think you shouldn't, I hate when somebody explain what a tool is, what it does, how it works and how to use it in the same video, I usually skip to the part I really need to see. Separate videos are much better in my totally irrelevant opinion.

[@funkahontas]

@@noelmatias4260 that's so stupid and inefficient

[@blackrastafarian]

Considering you use LaTeX and R, have you tried Rnoweb (.Rnw) format?

[@jordekang2844]

>he doesn't use org mode You did ask for it mate

[@VegarAB]

This is so perfect. Any good plugins og packages for live-preview like you have for LaTeX in vim?

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I don't know of any yet actually. I'm sure they're out there somewhere though.

[@loarto]

Maybe when you save the document you can convert it to latex and get the live-preview?

[@Inkrementalgeber]

Thank you very much!

[@keiichiiownsu12]

can pandoc convert markdowns to .docx formats? My professors tend to prefer those, even though this appears easier.

[@moustiqueneige4]

don't know if pandoc can do that (i do not use it) but converter from html to docx exist online so highly probable

[@kelvinpina3392]

so is for generating plot, graphs and the like?

[@hfgoodluck8162]

Don't know anything about security but isn't it unwise to give R root privileges when downloading and installing packages over the internet?

[@jaredturner3063]

I copied your vimrc file but F5 doesn't compile. Do I need to install anything else?

[@christianjuresh9436]

When I type 'v rmarkdown.rmd' into urxvt it tells me v: command not found. Substituting 'v' for 'vim rmarkdown.rmd' gives me a .rmd.swp file extension and the compiling doesn't work. Anyone know a solution? This is what I get when I try to compile; > require(rmarkdown); render('rmarkdown.rmd') Loading required package: rmarkdown Error in tools::file_path_as_absolute(input) : file 'rmarkdown.rmd' does not exist Calls: render -> setwd -> dirname -> In addition: Warning message: In normalizePath(path, winslash = winslash, mustWork = mustWork) : path[1]="rmarkdown.rmd": No such file or directory Execution halted shell returned 1

[@joaopedrodeamorimpaula8965]

Those gaps are way too big, and you know what they say about big gaps...

[@desktorp]

can't spell gape without gap

[@L0VEalive]

"They don't lie"?

[@thingyee1118]

I use markdown for all notes and documentation thesedays

[@iLeev1]

When will you do your video series about degoogling?

[@SweaterGuyUK]

I think he wrote it as an essay on his site: lukesmith.xyz/stop_using_google.html

[@Hecket]

.xyz Google (Alphabets) gTLD. hahahaha

[@NocturnidadInterna]

How can I modify your F5 line to do this>> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V CJKmainfont="Source Han Serif CN"

[@MarkJay]

did you mean "Preamble"? also, you can use atom to write markdown files. It is just an editor, unlike R which is big. atom is open source project from github, but since Microsoft owns github, it could be spyware....

[@adam82s]

Nice prompt

[@kirkeasterson3019]

Have you ever used emacs instead of vim?

[@dierks67]

Kirk Easterson lukesmith.xyz/faq.html

[@quindarius]

does Ctags work with citations?

[@elliotalderson6609]

Ребята, помогите! Я не понял че за R (да и вроде он не нужен). С помощью чего он через vim компилировал в pdf?

[@101graffhead]

do you need latex for making pdfs? with rmarkdown?

[@hernancervera6621]

You need to have installed any LaTeX distribution, like MikTeX. The reason behind this is that a LaTeX engine is used behind the hood, such as pdfLaTeX. ¿What uses the LaTeX engine behind the hood?: Pandoc; this tool (which can also be downloaded as standalone) allows for converting between file types whilst preserving content and structure, for example: Markdown -> PDF. You can read a bit more here: rmarkdown.rstudio.com/lesson-2.html. I personally use RStudio, I hope I helped you in some way :)

[@101graffhead]

@@hernancervera6621 kills the point for me to install rmarkdown since you can do a lot of that stuff with pandoc already, just not kniting documents and plotting and all the fancy stuff, but if one just want to make pretty pdfs that look like academic paper than all you need is latex and pandoc, you can easily convert markdown to similar docs which I am looking for. but I have to install latex anyway than rmarkdown is pretty pointless for me

[@apostleofazathoth7696]

Thanks for the video. I put your bash line in my .vimrc file but when I run it I end up with /bin/bash: cho: command not found being printed into my .rmd file. Help a newfag out? I promise I didn't forget the "e" in !echo.

[@n.g.5234]

Try :!echo

[@yash1152]

how is R Markdown different from Markdown??

[@radomane]

Kind sir, R Markdown allows for inline Latex in your markdown file, giving you the simplicity of Markdown and the extensibility of Latex. It is also great if you use Python or R and want to include graphs, visualizations etc.

[@yash1152]

> _"R md allows for inline Latex in your md file"_ > _"... & want to include graphs, visualizations etc."_ @@radomane ohwww, that's super awesome. Thanks a lot for answering 😄,

[@siffo10]

What are you using to write your script in?

[@slumberstudio4757]

vim

[@LundMr1]

Nice! This is amazing! However, the vim autocommand fails :/ > require(rmarkdown); render('lol.rmd') Loading required package: rmarkdown Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘rmarkdown’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...): unable to load shared object '/home/chansen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/stringi/libs/stringi.so': libicui18n.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error in render("lol.rmd") : could not find function "render" Execution halted

[@LukeSmithxyz]

Did you already run install.packages("rmarkdown") in R? What's your distro? It's possible it didn't pull a dependency mine did.

[@LundMr1]

Arch, and yes I did install the package in R as sudo. I dug around a bit on google but couldn't find anything. I'll do some more digging :)

[@LundMr1]

Nevermind - apparently I had messed something up on my laptop. My other machine worked as expected :)

[@SweaterGuyUK]

I found this tutorial by/on github about getting started with markdown: www.markdowntutorial.com/

[@DavidGillooly]

Are you using one of your Lenovo/IBM laptops in this video or a desktop system?

[@epix4300]

sold

[@CTimmerman]

` is a backtick.

[@justanothernigga8940]

how old are you

[@shubhampawar7921]

Why not use org instead of this

[@rens5759]

“what is org mode?”

[@lispmachine9687]

This is an inferior clone, for an inferior editor! :D

[@ivanbogush]

Wow. pandoc-siteproc is >400 MB

[@georgiosf.1223]

If you are serious about writing, use asciidoc with jbake. Don’t waste your time with markdown.

[@__donez__]

*asterisks

[@garrettmooney8667]

Checkout vim + nvimr + rtichoke

[@lispmachine9687]

M-x org-mode

[@SurrogateActivities]

hm maybe i can start writing some stuff for fun

[@jeandelinux259]

Wow

[@mskiptr]

/lɑːtɛx/

[@maxuix2]

too fat for latex?

[@134552Adnan]

you also need to specify a CRAN mirror for R to use: According to Stackoverflow, create ~/.Rprofile and add the following: ## Default repo local({r

[@thingyee1118]

Hi Luke ref Markdown websites check out: jekyllrb.com/ It supports generating the HTML from Markdown content. Also R Markdown has the export option but thats not as good as just being able to compile on runtime.

[@desktorp]

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