Compiling *.Rnw files with knitr –without Rstudio

Instead of going through Rstudio, you can use the functions in the knitr package directly. There are some options you can tweak, but to get started, all you have to do is call the knit() function on your .Rnw file:

library(knitr)
knit('my_input.Rnw')

If you’re missing some of Rstudio’s features, it’s worth remembering that most of them are just making use of things that are already available in various R packages, so you can usually find a way to use them when you don’t have Rstudio available.

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