New feature: technical report

[muuankarski]

In addition to actual book, the process should also print out a technical report (pdf/html) page, that would have a page for each graph listing the code and the comments from the code chunk that produces the object, summary of the data and the plot/table itself. And perhaps few more items too.

Purpose for this document would be to provide answer a quick to questions like

• what data was used
• how the growth rate was computed
• which countries are excluded
• why did you do this and not that
• could we do a ??-graph instead
• ...

[amyheyman]

Sounds like a lot of work...

[muuankarski]

No, actually it will be pretty easy! We just place the chapter into a different latex template than yearbook and it will print everything out. Just automatically once we have few spreads defined! And, I actually implemented a draft already. It is all hidden in the power of

• literate programming
• knitr
• knitr hooks
• knitr patterns