knitr
1.51A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R
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Provides a general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R using Literate Programming techniques.
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Declared dependencies
35 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
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R >= 3.6.0
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evaluatehighrmethodstoolsxfun (>=
0.52)yaml
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Package Timeline
75 releases. R releases are shown for context.
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- First published
- 2012-01-17
- Total releases
- 75 / 14 yrs
- License
- GPL
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- 472 KB
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