Set up an rmarkdown report

No more chatting now! Let's move to the actual production of our report. We are going to use RStudio, so let's open it and create a new R markdown report:

We can now specify what kind of document we want to create, which in our case is a ShinyDocument. I write down the title and my name as the author: 

A non-empty template with a file extension as .rmd was just created for us:

I will tell you a bit more about Shiny later when we actually use it, but let me give you just a quick intro to it and R markdown so that you can feel more comfortable in going ahead:

• R markdown is basically an R package that provides functions to create various kinds of documents hosting both text and R code outputs. It was a father of a prolific family, which nowadays encompasses packages for writing books directly from R to packages for building websites.
• shiny is an R package that provides functions to build web applications through R codes. It takes care of generating from the R code the...