Markdown_Lessons

Setup

Download the repository, either:

• By clicking on the green code box in the right corner
• If you have the use_this package installed this can be done from within R using

usethis::use_course(url = "https://github.com/MattBixley/Markdown_Lessons/archive/master.zip", 
    destdir = "~/Desktop")

After opening the R Project, make sure to run this code beforehand to make sure you are all set up.

# RUN THE FOLLOWING TO SET UP REQUIRED PACKAGES AND DATA
# BEFORE FIRST COMPILING THIS RMD
# (only need to do once)
source("scripts/setup.R")

1. Introductory Markdown

• Objectives
  • Write a reproducible report
  • set up
  • code chunks
  • tables
  • plots
  • captions/figures
  • citations

2. Extended Markdown

• Objectives
  • report template
    • msword
    • pdfs
  • parameters
    • input
    • output
  • bookdown
    • cross references

Resources

More detailed tutorials and examples can be found at the following

RStudio/RMarkdown
R Markdown for Scientists
R Markdown: The Definitive Guide R for Data Science

Data

The Palmer Penguins dataset used can be found here