R Markdown

R Markdown: Create Dynamic Documents

A document format allowing easy creation of dynamic documents, reports, presentations, and more from R, with embedded code chunks for execution and visualization.

What is R Markdown?

R Markdown is an open-source document format created by RStudio. It allows you to create fully-reproducible data analysis reports, presentations, dashboards, interactive applications, books, dissertations, websites, and more from R.

R Markdown documents contain text written in Markdown, a simple formatting syntax for authoring web pages, interspersed with chunks of embedded R code. When you render an R Markdown document, the R code chunks are executed and their output inserted back into the final document.

This enables you to create dynamic analysis documents that combine code, formatted text, results, and visualizations in a single document. R Markdown supports dozens of output formats including HTML, PDF, MS Word, beamer slides, interactive dashboards, websites, books, journal articles and more.

Some key advantages of R Markdown include:

• Reproducibility - the code executes whenever the document renders
• Ease of collaboration - Markdown text is simple for others to edit
• Multi-format output - supports PDF, Word, HTML, slides and more from a single source file
• Integration of text, code, results and visualizations
• Support for dozens of R, Python and other languages

With RStudio IDE, you get authoring features like syntax highlighting, markdown preview, reference lookup, R code execution and more. So R Markdown brings together an easy-to-write plain text format with the power of R and other languages to create dynamic analysis documents and reports.

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