Typesetting

In this 2h. session we introduce the concept of markup languages in combination with pandoc and working with the terminal. In particular we focus on markdown: a very lightweight and markup language (and probably the fastest way to create slides). In particular we deal with:

1. LaTeX
2. Markdown
3. Pandoc

Although the last one, pandoc, is not completely necessary (it is under the hood of RStudio), we think it is important and handy enough to spend some on.

Requirements

For this session, we basically need three tools: R, RStudio, and LaTeX. Head over to the Requirements page to see how to install them if you haven’t yet.

For the assignment we will replicate this paper. The basic document for the assignment is here and the file with references is here

Outcomes

After this session you should:

• understand the basic command of the markdown language;
• be able to write a (part of a) paper in markdown in RStudio including:
  • headers;
  • links;
  • formula’s;
  • tables, and
  • references;
• be able to export this to:
  • HTML export;
  • pdf export;
  • Words’ docx export.

Slides

• html
• pdf

References

Latex:

• LaTeX Tutorial: A nice way to start with LateX for those who are interested
• LaTex Mathematics: How to write LaTeX formula’s

Markdown:

• Markdown: Background information
• Markdown versus Latex: An interesting point of view by Yihui Xie.

R, RStudio, knitr and RMarkdown:

• Rand Rstudio: Online learning of the basic r studio commands
• RMarkdown Cheatsheet: Can come in handy

Pandoc:

• Pandoc: John Macfarlane really deserves some credit; if only for conversion to Word (there is always those coauthors who….)