LaTeX Resources

• MSU math LaTeX info
• Example LaTeX file to build a Stat 216 quiz. The pdf output.
• TeXWorks easy LaTeXing
• or there is TeXmaker
• LyX for those who don't want to see the LaTeX code. "What you see is what you mean" editor creates LaTeX for you.
• knitR is one way to do "reproducible research". It uses a single (LaTeX) file which combines computer code, output, and interpretation. I'm going to require it by mid semester. You'll need to install the knitr package in R.
  Here is an example homework done in R using knitr. Save it into its own folder, load it into Rstudio, and click "compile PDF". It takes a while and gives some warnings, but should build a complete HW with Rcode repeated in the appendix.

  I have knitr listed under LaTeX, but actually, you could use a simpler process called markdown to create a "reproducible research" document on the web. See this blog. There is play on words in the name markdown, which creates HTML pages (hyper text markup language). Oh, and LaTeX is also a markup language. To get bold text in LaTeX you do this:

  {\bf This text will be bold.}
  

  Whereas in HTML it looks like this:

  < b >   This text will be bold. < /b >
  

  In each case you use special marks to say "start bold" and "stop bold".
• Sweave has similar objectives and has been available longer, but it does not cache results as nicely and has fewer options for plots. If you write an R package, you might need to use it.