knitr+R+miktex+Lyx+Rstudio = beautiful AND reproducible research

 

I have found the tools I am looking for:

R – to analyze data and create graphics

knitr – (a package for r) to elegantly merge my statistical analysis with my text

miktex – to generate pdfs from my latex files

and Lyx and RStudio for quick editing my latex files with embeded R code.

Together these tools help to create reproducible research; no more errors because the data was updated, after the text was written, no more graphs at wrongfully labeled.

Some errors are hard to eradicate with technology (like wrongful conclusions). But some errors are just not necessary anymore, because convenient tools exist.

I owe a great deal of productivity to the creator if knitr  Yihui Xie.

http://yihui.name/knitr/demos

To get started on reproducible research go here: http://users.stat.umn.edu/~geyer/Sweave/#reproduce