Doing reproducible research with R Markdown
Since the concepts and methods of reproducible research have their own range of topics that could easily fill several books, we would like to focus on the abilities of R Markdown in conjunction with RStudio in this chapter. But first, we will give you a few introductory statements.
What is Markdown?
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write, using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, and then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). | ||
| --John Gruber, Creator of Markdown (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) | ||
This simplification, and the fact that it is akin to the markup language, enables authors to perform a fast and intuitive ...
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