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A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R

Yihui Xie, Abhraneel Sarma, Adam Vogt, Alastair Andrew, Alex Zvoleff, Amar Al-Zubaidi, Andre Simon, Aron Atkins, Aaron Wolen, Ashley Manton, Atsushi Yasumoto, Ben Baumer, Brian Diggs, Brian Zhang, Bulat Yapparov, Cassio Pereira, Christophe Dervieux, David Hall, David Hugh-Jones, David Robinson, Doug Hemken, Duncan Murdoch, Elio Campitelli, Ellis Hughes, Emily Riederer, Fabian Hirschmann, Fitch Simeon, Forest Fang, Frank E Harrell Jr, Garrick Aden-Buie, Gregoire Detrez, Hadley Wickham, Hao Zhu, Heewon Jeon, Henrik Bengtsson, Hiroaki Yutani, Ian Lyttle, Hodges Daniel, Jacob Bien, Jake Burkhead, James Manton, Jared Lander, Jason Punyon, Javier Luraschi, Jeff Arnold, Jenny Bryan, Jeremy Ashkenas, Jeremy Stephens, Jim Hester, Joe Cheng, Johannes Ranke, John Honaker, John Muschelli, Jonathan Keane, JJ Allaire, Johan Toloe, Jonathan Sidi, Joseph Larmarange, Julien Barnier, Kaiyin Zhong, Kamil Slowikowski, Karl Forner, Kevin K. Smith, Kirill Mueller, Kohske Takahashi, Lorenz Walthert, Lucas Gallindo, Marius Hofert, Martin Modrák, Michael Chirico, Michael Friendly, Michal Bojanowski, Michel Kuhlmann, Miller Patrick, Nacho Caballero, Nick Salkowski, Niels Richard Hansen, Noam Ross, Obada Mahdi, Pavel N. Krivitsky, Pedro Faria, Qiang Li, Ramnath Vaidyanathan, Richard Cotton, Robert Krzyzanowski, Rodrigo Copetti, Romain Francois, Ruaridh Williamson, Sagiru Mati, Scott Kostyshak, Sebastian Meyer, Sietse Brouwer, Simon de Bernard, Sylvain Rousseau, Taiyun Wei, Thibaut Assus, Thibaut Lamadon, Thomas Leeper, Tim Mastny, Tom Torsney-Weir, Trevor Davis, Viktoras Veitas, Weicheng Zhu, Wush Wu, Zachary Foster, Zhian N. Kamvar, Posit Software, PBC

CRAN/E | knitr

Installation

About

Provides a general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R using Literate Programming techniques.

Citation	knitr citation info
yihui.org/knitr/
System requirements	Package vignettes based on R Markdown v2 or reStructuredText require Pandoc (http://pandoc.org). The function rst2pdf() requires rst2pdf (https://github.com/rst2pdf/rst2pdf).
Bug report	File report

Key Metrics

Version	1.46
R	≥ 3.3.0
Published	2024-04-06 19 days ago
Needs compilation?	no
License	GPL-2
License	GPL-3
CRAN checks	knitr results

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Maintainer

Yihui Xie

xie@yihui.name

Authors

Yihui Xie	aut / cre
Abhraneel Sarma	ctb
Adam Vogt	ctb
Alastair Andrew	ctb
Alex Zvoleff	ctb
Amar Al-Zubaidi	ctb
Andre Simon	ctb (the CSS files under inst/themes/ were derived from the Highlight package http://www.andre-simon.de)
Aron Atkins	ctb
Aaron Wolen	ctb
Ashley Manton	ctb
Atsushi Yasumoto	ctb
Ben Baumer	ctb
Brian Diggs	ctb
Brian Zhang	ctb
Bulat Yapparov	ctb
Cassio Pereira	ctb
Christophe Dervieux	ctb
David Hall	ctb
David Hugh-Jones	ctb
David Robinson	ctb
Doug Hemken	ctb
Duncan Murdoch	ctb
Elio Campitelli	ctb
Ellis Hughes	ctb
Emily Riederer	ctb
Fabian Hirschmann	ctb
Fitch Simeon	ctb
Forest Fang	ctb
Frank E Harrell Jr	ctb (the Sweavel package at inst/misc/Sweavel.sty)
Garrick Aden-Buie	ctb
Gregoire Detrez	ctb
Hadley Wickham	ctb
Hao Zhu	ctb
Heewon Jeon	ctb
Henrik Bengtsson	ctb
Hiroaki Yutani	ctb
Ian Lyttle	ctb
Hodges Daniel	ctb
Jacob Bien	ctb
Jake Burkhead	ctb
James Manton	ctb
Jared Lander	ctb
Jason Punyon	ctb
Javier Luraschi	ctb
Jeff Arnold	ctb
Jenny Bryan	ctb
Jeremy Ashkenas	ctb / cph (the CSS file at inst/misc/docco-classic.css)
Jeremy Stephens	ctb
Jim Hester	ctb
Joe Cheng	ctb
Johannes Ranke	ctb
John Honaker	ctb
John Muschelli	ctb
Jonathan Keane	ctb
JJ Allaire	ctb
Johan Toloe	ctb
Jonathan Sidi	ctb
Joseph Larmarange	ctb
Julien Barnier	ctb
Kaiyin Zhong	ctb
Kamil Slowikowski	ctb
Karl Forner	ctb
Kevin K. Smith	ctb
Kirill Mueller	ctb
Kohske Takahashi	ctb
Lorenz Walthert	ctb
Lucas Gallindo	ctb
Marius Hofert	ctb
Martin Modrák	ctb
Michael Chirico	ctb
Michael Friendly	ctb
Michal Bojanowski	ctb
Michel Kuhlmann	ctb
Miller Patrick	ctb
Nacho Caballero	ctb
Nick Salkowski	ctb
Niels Richard Hansen	ctb
Noam Ross	ctb
Obada Mahdi	ctb
Pavel N. Krivitsky	ctb
Pedro Faria	ctb
Qiang Li	ctb
Ramnath Vaidyanathan	ctb
Richard Cotton	ctb
Robert Krzyzanowski	ctb
Rodrigo Copetti	ctb
Romain Francois	ctb
Ruaridh Williamson	ctb
Sagiru Mati	ctb
Scott Kostyshak	ctb
Sebastian Meyer	ctb
Sietse Brouwer	ctb
Simon de Bernard	ctb
Sylvain Rousseau	ctb
Taiyun Wei	ctb
Thibaut Assus	ctb
Thibaut Lamadon	ctb
Thomas Leeper	ctb
Tim Mastny	ctb
Tom Torsney-Weir	ctb
Trevor Davis	ctb
Viktoras Veitas	ctb
Weicheng Zhu	ctb
Wush Wu	ctb
Zachary Foster	ctb
Zhian N. Kamvar	ctb
Posit Software
PBC	cph / fnd

Material

NEWS
Reference manual
Package source

In Views

ReproducibleResearch

Vignettes

knitr Reference Card
Display Tables with the JavaScript Library DataTables
Templating with knit_expand()
Custom Print Methods
An R HTML Vignette with knitr
Not an Introduction to knitr
An R Markdown Vignette with knitr
R Markdown with the Docco Classic Style
R Markdown with the Docco Linear Style

macOS

r-release	arm64
r-oldrel	arm64
r-release	x86_64

Windows

r-devel	x86_64
r-release	x86_64
r-oldrel	x86_64

Old Sources

knitr archive

Depends

R

≥ 3.3.0

Imports

evaluate	≥ 0.15
highr
methods
tools
xfun	≥ 0.43
yaml	≥ 2.1.19

Suggests

bslib
codetools
DBI	≥ 0.4-1
digest
formatR
gifski
gridSVG
htmlwidgets	≥ 0.7
jpeg
JuliaCall	≥ 0.11.1
magick
markdown	≥ 1.3
png
ragg
reticulate	≥ 1.4
rgl	≥ 0.95.1201
rlang
rmarkdown
sass
showtext
styler	≥1.2.0
targets	≥ 0.6.0
testit
tibble
tikzDevice	≥0.10
tinytex	≥ 0.46
webshot
rstudioapi
svglite

Reverse Depends

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CNORode
cTOST
DeMixT
docknitr
FAMetA
frequency
frequencyConnectedness
Guitar
knitxl
LabRS
mathml
multiverse
NatureSounds
PopGenReport
preferably
qra
ReportingTools
reverseR
rmdHelpers
ROCpAI
rrecsys
sangeranalyseR
spThin
tab
tangram
tidycharts
tufterhandout
xtsum

Reverse Imports

abseqR
accessrmd
actel
actuaRE
ADAM
ADAMgui
adea
AdhereRViz
ADPclust
AgroR
ahpsurvey
alpha.correction.bh
amanida
AMARETTO
amplican
Anaquin
animint2
APCtools
apsimx
archeoViz
archetyper
arsenal
artpack
AssetCorr
ASSISTant
attachment
autoharp
automagic
autoMrP
AutoScore
bandle
BatchQC
baytrends
BCHM
bcrm
behaviorchange
BENMMI
BGVAR
binb
BiocCheck
BiocStyle
BiocWorkflowTools
BioInsight
BioNetStat
bipl5
blandr
BLCOP
blogdown
bookdown
boot.heterogeneity
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Reverse Suggests

a4Classif
a4Core
a4Preproc
a4Reporting
AalenJohansen
ABACUS
ABC.RAP
abess
ABHgenotypeR
abmR
absorber
abstr
abstractr
AcademicThemes
academictwitteR
accelerometry
AccelStab
accessibility
accrualPlot
ACE
ace2fastq
ACEsimFit
ACEt
Achilles
acnr
act
ActFrag
activAnalyzer
activatr
ActivePathways
ActivityIndex
actLifer
actuaryr
actxps
adaptDiag
AdaptGauss
adaptiveGPCA
adaptIVPT
adaptMT
adaptr
adaR
AdaSampling
add2ggplot
addinsOutline
additive
additivityTests
addScales
adductData
adductomicsR
adegraphics
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Reverse Enhances

collapsibleTree
htmltools
kimisc
networkD3
patchSynctex
svgPanZoom
this.path
threejs
tinytable