knitr: nice alternative for Sweave

December 17, 2011
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(This article was first published on Recipes, scripts and genomics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

I recently discovered knitr for dynamic report generation in R. It seems like a very powerful alternative to Sweave. Particularly, I am interested in png graphic device support (it supports more than 20 graphic devices) and R code formatting.

Check it out at:
http://yihui.github.com/knitr/

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