LaTeX, RMarkdown, Viking Excavation, and some plans

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So i've been watching some of Luke's videos on LaTeX and was writing some notes i was taking on a book about a viking excavation site and their findings exclusively in LaTeX. So this document is all about viking leather work and since i also run a leather working business and perform as a viking at local renaissance faires, i want my skit as a merchant to be time period correct leather work.

I Digress, i was writing all my pertinant findings in LaTeX and as far as i had gotten i liked it well enough, but Luke was right, it is a hefty install, and the learning curve is steep. There are a few things like macros in LaTeX i cant really imagine replicating at this point, but for most of my purposes, ill probably never need them.

So after watching more of Luke's LaTeX videos i re-watched his videos on RMarkdown. Now i LOVE RMarkdown, it's one of my favorite things to use not only at work, but also at home, and were i to return, at school. RMarkdown make note taking, documentation, data analysis and reporting, and much more SO much easier. Once i saw Luke talking about how with pandoc-citeproc that the same power of a bib/bibber file for LaTeX can be replicated seamlessly in RMarkdown and pretty much all the benefits of LaTeX i figured there's really no reason to use anything else. So i moved my notes over to RMarkdown and i plan to use it for pretty much everything for ever.

Given my love for RMarkdown i planned to do some videos on it, and i finally got around to writing my ideas out on various topics i could cover on RMarkdown, and it turns out its like 16 ideas so far, so there will be a lot of RMarkdown vidos to come in the future.