Making interactive slides with Org mode and googleVis in R
There’s been a lot of justifiable excitement in the R community about Yihui Xie’s great work, and most recently the incorporation of his knitr package into the RStudio software. Knitr is seen,...
View ArticleUsing Org mode for course development and presentations
For the last two semesters I’ve been teaching part of LSM2241, Introductory Bioinformatics at NUS. This is the first serious exposure to Bioinformatics for students in the Life Sciences at NUS, so it’s...
View ArticleLSM2241 Lecture 2: A temporarily Org-mode-less lecture
My feedback from students after the first week of LSM2241 (Introductory Bioinformatics) was generally quite positive. Many commented on the well organized slides (where Org mode is my secret weapon)...
View ArticleUsing consistent R and LaTeX fonts in Org (or knitr, or Sweave)
I love good typography, even more so as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint have debased our standards. When I see a really fine piece of technical typesetting, it’s almost always done using TeX and friends....
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