RStudio for R Statistical Computing Cookbook

Generating dynamic parametrized reports with R Markdown

This recipe will leverage R Markdown to produce parametrized reports where the user is prompted to specify arguments related to the report, and the report is then produced.

In this recipe, you will find screenshots taken from an R Markdown document.

The full document is provided within the RStudio project related to the cookbook, under the name parametrized_report.rmd.

Getting ready

From a technical point of view, all you need in order to perform this recipe is to install the rmarkdown and knintr packages, so let's install and load them:

Install.packages("rmarkdown",type = "source")
install.packages("knitr)
library(rmarkdown)
library(knitr)

From a practical point of view, you should quickly run ...