Knitr

Besides Jupyter Notebooks and running R in a Linux Terminal, CoCalc offers support for embedding R commands in documents. Under the hood, it uses Knitr and manages all the details for you.

LaTeX via Knitr

Getting started

• Create a file with the ending .Rnw, preferably in a subdirectory.

Features

• forward/inverse search
• detection of Knitr issues and post-processing of errors
• persistent caching across sessions and project restarts
• support for running standalone *.R scripts and importing them in a LaTeX document
• create files or read from other data files
• 10 minutes timeout (maximum, also depends on available memory)

Rmarkdown

• Processing of all cells upon save