[R] a knitr question

Yihui Xie xie at yihui.name
Thu Jul 31 18:31:14 CEST 2014


Great.

I also said "I see the point of keeping prompts", and that is why the
chunk option prompt=TRUE is provided in knitr. I may not agree with
your preference, but that does not mean I should stop you completely
from having your own preference.

Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30/07/2014, 11:12 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
>> No. That is not my suggestion. Joshua Wiley correctly explained what I
>> was suggesting. Prompts are useful in the R console, but not
>> necessarily in a report.
>
> Okay, then we agree.  For Erin's purpose (teaching), it is helpful to
> beginners if the document looks the same as what they see in the
> console.  More sophisticated users don't need the prompts.
>
> Duncan Murdoch



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