Learn RStudio IDE: Quick, Effective, and Productive Data Science

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8. R Markdown

Matthew Campbell¹ 

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Yardley, PA, USA

 

You use R Markdown to create reports that incorporate the features discussed in the previous chapters. R Markdown leverages freely available open source technology like HTML, CSS, and Markdown to create rich reports in a variety of formats.

R Markdown is based on Markdown, which is a short-hand method of defining a document in a human readable way. The idea is that you can take quick notes in a structured way. These notes are readable on their own, but they can also be translated into polished presentation formats such as web pages, presentations, and PDF files.

RStudio extends Markdown by adding ...