Introduction to making reports using markdown languages

Author

Oliver Sheridan-Methven, June 2018.

Last revised

May 2019.

Description

This is a brief introduction to using markdown support for producing reports in Python, R, and Matlab.

This is designed to be a light overview, and for those of you who use LaTeX, we would recommend using LaTeX in favour of markdown languages.

Requirements

• R - RStudio
• MATLAB - Matlab IDE.
• Python - Python 2.7 and the JetBrains PyCharm IDE (professional edition is available to students for free).

LaTeX

While this course is not an introduction to LaTeX, we will use some of its referencing and mathematical features. This will include:

• Making small tables.
• Referencing figures.
• Citing sources.
• Writing equations.
• Formatting sections.
• Including code segments.

We will however try to keep the external packages used and LaTeX commands to a minimal amount however for ease of learning.