The first official book authored by the core R Markdown developers that provides a comprehensive and accurate reference to the R Markdown ecosystem. With R Markdown, you can easily create reproducible data analysis reports, presentations, dashboards, interactive applications, books, dissertations, websites, and journal articles, while enjoying the simplicity of Markdown and the great power of R and other languages.
This book aims to teach the following:
Getting started with your own R Markdown document
Improve workflow:
With rstudio projects
Using keyboard shortcuts
Export your R Markdown document to PDF, HTML, and Microsoft Word
Better manage figures and tables
Reference figures and tables in text so that they dynamically update
Create captions for figures and tables
Change the size and type of figures
Save the figures to disk when creating an rmarkdown document
Work with equations
inline and display
caption equations
reference equations
Manage bibliographies
Cite articles in text
generate bibliographies
Change bibliography styles
Debug and handle common errors with rmarkdown
Next steps in working with rmarkdown - how to extend yourself to other rmarkdown formats