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thangalin ◴[10 Apr 25 18:51 UTC] No.43646979[source]▶
Tangentially, R can help produce living Markdown documents (.Rmd files). A couple of ways include pandoc with knitr[0] or my FOSS text editor, KeenWrite[1]. I've kept the R syntax in KeenWrite compatible with knitr. Living documents as part of a build process can produce PDFs that are always up-to-date with respect to external data sources[2], which includes source code.

[0]: https://yihui.org/knitr/

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

[2]: https://youtu.be/XSbTF3E5p7Q?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9KWzP...

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haberman ◴[10 Apr 25 19:42 UTC] No.43647376[source]▶
There is also Quarto, which I have had a good experience with: https://quarto.org/
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countrymile ◴[10 Apr 25 20:17 UTC] No.43647665[source]▶
R is beautiful for writing data rich books and websites. I started with rmarkdown but believe that most of the new developments are now in quarto?
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1. malshe ◴[10 Apr 25 22:55 UTC] No.43648746[source]▶
Yes, that's correct. Quarto is language agnostic and Posit has chosen that route over just being an R shop.