RStudio for R Statistical Computing Cookbook

Chapter 7. Developing Static Reports

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Using one markup language for all types of documents – rmarkdown
• Writing and styling PDF documents with RStudio
• Writing wonderful tufte handouts with the tufte package and rmarkdown
• Sharing your code and plots with slides
• Curating a blog through RStudio

Introduction

In this chapter, we will provide tools for the last part of your data-analysis project: result sharing. This is a relevant phase since your work will give no added value if you do not effectively communicate it.

You know this is true, but how do you do it?

The answer to this question can be split into two parts:

• The marketing part
• The technical part

Let’s first briefly address the first part, since the second ...