Rendering and sharing an R markdown report 

You now have a sense of how flexible and useful this instrument can be in letting you organize and disclose the results from your data mining activity. 

Rendering an R markdown report

We are ready to deploy our report and take a look at it. We can easily do this by following two alternative ways:

• Clicking on Run Document within the RStudio user interface:

• Rendering the document through the render() function, which comes directly from the rmarkdown package.

Whichever way you choose, this will be the output obtained:

We now have to see how to share this with Mr. Clough.

Sharing an R Markdown report

The alternatives available to share R Markdown documents are basically two:

• Static R Markdown reports: If the document encompasses only static elements, you can render it in different file formats, such as .html, .pdf, or even Word. Be aware that in order to create such a kind of document, you need to select Document from the New R Markdown window. Let me show...