Chapter 7 R Markdown

Markdown is a markup language: a set of formatting instructions for rendering documents. R Markdown is an extension of Markdown that allows for embedding chunks of R code into a Markdown document. In this course, we will write our work in R Markdown within the R Studio environment, then use the knitr package to generate HTML and PDF output files.

For a nice introduction to Markdown and R Markdown, watch the short YouTube video Reproducible Reports with R Markdown (STAT 545 Episode 3-A) from the University of British Columbia.

As you proceed in creating your documents, you will probably want to access additional resources:

• From within R Studio, you can access an R Markdown Cheat Sheet via Help/Cheatsheets.

• Markdown reference: https://www.markdownguide.org/

• R Markdown reference: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/