R was certainly not designed to be a publishing engine, but in my workflow, R is the primary method of content creation. With that in mind, I have been thinking about a very different use case of rCharts in which we might want to include inflexible and not really reusable custom javascript components in our document. As a quick example after updating my CPI component graph using d3.js and angular, I want to plug it into a document and really only need to modify a couple of parameters. While someone might want to use this for different data, I doubt it.
rCharts seamless integration with knitr/slidify/Rpres makes this very easy. I just wonder how popular this will become.
Friedman was, of course, full of it. As OPEC proved 3 years later.
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