NE R User Group (NE-RUG) Seminar - Yihui Xie
Creating Beautiful PDFs via HTML/CSS/JS
1:00 pm –
2:00 pm
Animal Science Complex Room: ANSCI A128
Target Audiences:
3940 Fair Street
Lincoln NE 68583
Lincoln NE 68583
Contact:
Jeff Stevens, jstevens5@unl.edu
Summary:
The usual way of creating a PDF document is through a typesetting tool such as LaTeX or Word. LaTeX is well-known for its steep learning curve and high-quality PDF output. Word is widely used but tears will be streaming down your face once you learn CSS, because you will realize how much of your life has been wasted in styling Word documents. In this talk, I’ll introduce a new way to typeset documents and generate PDFs. The underlying technology is decades old and right under your nose: HTML (whenever you read a web page, you are using HTML). Normally HTML is presented as a continuous page in the browser, and I’ll show how to typeset the continuous page into discrete pages that can be printed to PDF (or on paper). You may open https://yihui.org/litedown/, press P on your keyboard (or Ctrl + P / Cmd + P), and see a real example to decide whether you want to attend this talk. If time permits, I’ll give a gentle introduction to the R package litedown, of which generating paged HTML documents is only a small feature.
About Yihui:
Yihui Xie is currently a freelancer, and was a software engineer at Posit Software, PBC (2013-2023). He earned his PhD from the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. His thesis was Dynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics, advised by Di Cook and Heike Hofmann. He has developed a series of R packages either seriously or for fun (or both), such as litedown, knitr, animation, bookdown, blogdown, pagedown, xaringan, and tinytex.
About NE-RUG:
Nebraska R Users Group is for anyone in Nebraska who is interested in using R for statistics, data visualization, machine learning, and more. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced R user, this group is a great opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, share resources and tips, and collaborate on projects. Join us for regular meetups, workshops, and discussions to deepen your R programming skills and explore new possibilities in data analysis. Let’s come together to learn, grow, and advance our data science journey with R!
https://neb-rug.github.io/
If you wish to attend virtually, please RSVP at: https://www.meetup.com/neb-rug/events/306923229/
A zoom link will be sent to you when you register.
The usual way of creating a PDF document is through a typesetting tool such as LaTeX or Word. LaTeX is well-known for its steep learning curve and high-quality PDF output. Word is widely used but tears will be streaming down your face once you learn CSS, because you will realize how much of your life has been wasted in styling Word documents. In this talk, I’ll introduce a new way to typeset documents and generate PDFs. The underlying technology is decades old and right under your nose: HTML (whenever you read a web page, you are using HTML). Normally HTML is presented as a continuous page in the browser, and I’ll show how to typeset the continuous page into discrete pages that can be printed to PDF (or on paper). You may open https://yihui.org/litedown/, press P on your keyboard (or Ctrl + P / Cmd + P), and see a real example to decide whether you want to attend this talk. If time permits, I’ll give a gentle introduction to the R package litedown, of which generating paged HTML documents is only a small feature.
About Yihui:
Yihui Xie is currently a freelancer, and was a software engineer at Posit Software, PBC (2013-2023). He earned his PhD from the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. His thesis was Dynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics, advised by Di Cook and Heike Hofmann. He has developed a series of R packages either seriously or for fun (or both), such as litedown, knitr, animation, bookdown, blogdown, pagedown, xaringan, and tinytex.
About NE-RUG:
Nebraska R Users Group is for anyone in Nebraska who is interested in using R for statistics, data visualization, machine learning, and more. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced R user, this group is a great opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, share resources and tips, and collaborate on projects. Join us for regular meetups, workshops, and discussions to deepen your R programming skills and explore new possibilities in data analysis. Let’s come together to learn, grow, and advance our data science journey with R!
https://neb-rug.github.io/
If you wish to attend virtually, please RSVP at: https://www.meetup.com/neb-rug/events/306923229/
A zoom link will be sent to you when you register.
https://www.meetup.com/neb-rug/events/306923229/
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