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## title:First Attempt at a knitr Performance Report
## author:Timely Portfolio
require(PerformanceAnalytics)
require(xtable)
data(edhec)
table.CalendarReturns(edhec[,1:3])[13:15]
charts.PerformanceSummary(edhec[,1:3],
colorset=c("gray50","steelblue2","steelblue4"),
main="EDHEC Performance by Type")
require(knitr)
#use stitch to open and run the knitr performance.r script
# and then generate Rnw code
#knit2pdf converts the Rnw to a pdf
knit2pdf(stitch("knitr performance.r"))
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timelyportfolio commented Apr 12, 2012 via email

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yihui commented Apr 12, 2012

you are welcome to play with the LaTeX part of knitr which should be mature enough now; once the markdown support becomes mature, I believe all R users should be able to play with dynamic report generation easily because no knowledge of LaTeX is required then -- it can be even simpler than Word.

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