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| Original author(s) | Yihui Xie |
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| Initial release | 17 January 2012 |
| Stable release | 1.43
/ 26 May 2023 |
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| Written in | R |
| Type | Cross-platform |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | yihui |
knitr is a software engine for dynamic report generation with R.[1][2] It is a package in the programming language R that enables integration of R code into LaTeX, LyX, HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, and reStructuredText documents. The purpose of knitr is to allow reproducible research in R through the means of literate programming. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.[3]
knitr was inspired by Sweave and written with a different design for better modularization, so it is easier to maintain and extend. Sweave can be regarded as a subset of knitr in the sense that all features of Sweave are also available in knitr. Some of knitr's extensions include the R Markdown format[4] (used in reports published on RPubs[5]), caching, TikZ graphics and support to other languages such as Python, Perl, C++, Shell scripts and CoffeeScript, and so on.
knitr is officially supported in the RStudio IDE for R, LyX, Emacs/ESS and the Architect IDE for data science.
- ^ Xie, Yihui (2015). Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, 2nd Edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC. ISBN 9781498716963.
- ^ Xie, Yihui. "knitr: A General-Purpose Tool for Dynamic Report Generation in R" (PDF). GitHub.
- ^ "Knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R". 29 September 2021.
- ^ RStudio, Inc. "R Markdown — Dynamic Documents for R".
- ^ RStudio, Inc. "Easy web publishing from R".