Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to create R Markdown documents and presentations. At the beginning of the chapter, we familiarized ourselves with the basics of the concept of reproducible research and how to accomplish this approach with R Markdown and the RStudio IDE. This includes setting up R Markdown and installing all the requisite packages.

We continued by studying the R Markdown interface in the RStudio IDE, and got to know all the relevant functions and how to use them. In addition to writing Markdown and integrating R code correctly, we also learned about the different output formats such as HTML, PDF, and Word. We are now able to create advanced R Markdown documents and presentations.

In the next chapter, we will focus our attention ...

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