Another minimal beamer example for knitr

knitr-beamer2.Rnw

% this is a simplified version of 
% https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/master/inst/examples/knitr-beamer.Rnw
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
<<setup, include=FALSE>>=
# smaller font size for chunks
opts_chunk$set(size = 'footnotesize')
@
\title{A Minimal Demo of knitr}
\author{Paul Hiemstra \and Yihui Xie}

\maketitle

% very important to use option [fragile] for frames containing code output!

\begin{frame}[fragile]
You can test if \textbf{knitr} works with this minimal demo. OK, let's
get started with some boring random numbers:

<<boring-random>>=
set.seed(1121)
(x=rnorm(20))
mean(x);var(x)
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\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]
The first element of \texttt{x} is \Sexpr{x[1]}. Boring boxplots
and histograms recorded by the PDF device:

<<boring-plots, fig.width=5, fig.height=5, out.width='.45\\linewidth', fig.show='hold'>>=
## two plots side by side (option fig.show='hold')
boxplot(x)
hist(x,main='')
@
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Thanks for response and link to news of v0.6. Development version not easy to install under Windows, (no Rtools for R-2.15.0, spaces in paths problem, too much). Maybe come back when 0.6 is on CRAN.

I have pushed a version to R-Forge, so you should be able to install the Windows version once the build is ready there: https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=656

Would you have a beamer example with references working properly for figures and tables?

The reference bit works, but the label does not print in the figure caption:
<<Figure1, fig.cap = 'My Figure'>>=
...etc.
plot(x, y)
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\end{frame}
The above has a caption like: Figure: My Figure instead of Figure 1: My Figure

This \ref{fig:Figure1} prints as Figure 1, as expected.

And how to do the same with a table, e.g.
<<Table1, echo = FALSE, results = 'asis'>>=
library(xtable)
xtable(summary(lm(y~x))$coefficients, caption ="Summary")
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Couldn't get it to work at all inside the beamer class.

Thanks!