6 R MARKDOWN REPORTS

Imagine that you’ve collected surveys about customer satisfaction with your new product. Now you’re ready to analyze the data and write up your results. First, you download your data from Google Sheets and import it into a statistical analysis tool like SPSS. Next, you use SPSS to clean and analyze your data, export summaries of your data as Excel spreadsheets, and then use Excel to make some charts. Finally, you write your report in Word, pasting in your charts from Excel along the way.

Sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone. Many people use this workflow for data analysis. But what happens when, the next month, new ...

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