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About LaTeX

Pronunciation: lay-tech

LaTeX is an open source markup language with a typesetting engine. It's been around since the 70s and generally makes awesome documents.

LaTeX is designed to work stand-alone, or integrate with other languages. It's particularly good with R.

It works in the way rmarkdown does with knitr, but allows for more sophisticated document styling.

Why LaTeX?

• Seamless integration between code and content
• Fantastic looking documentation
• Works on all operating systems and has a number of cloud/internet hosted services
• Can use markdown and append LaTeX style
• Use for more polished presentations without having to go into PowerPoint

Get LaTeX

• Online: Overleaf.com
• Windows: proTeXt
• Mac: MacTex
• Linux: sudo apt-get texlive

Once you have a LaTeX installation, you can write LaTeX in Rstudio.

In Rstudio, select the File type "R Sweave" which saves as a .Rnw file.

Learn LaTeX

LaTeX is a very deep language, so no attempt is made to teach you here.

One of the easiest ways of getting started with LaTeX (generally) is to pick one of the examples / templates on overleaf.com and play with it.

For using R and LaTeX, you can use the minimal examples on yihui.name/knitr to get started.

See the LaTeX wikibook for lots of info about LaTeX.

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