Fundamentals of R Markdown

R Markdown is a formatting language that can help you effectively and dynamically reveal insights from the data and generate reports in the form of a PDF, an HTML file, or a web application. It allows you to tidy up your analyses via various forms of graphs and tables covered earlier in this book, and present them in a consistent, neat, and transparent manner that facilitates easy reproduction by another analyst. Either in academia or industry, demonstrating reproducibility in your analysis is an essential quality of your work. When others can easily reproduce and understand what you did in your analysis, it makes communication much easier and your work more trustworthy. Since all outputs are code-based, the ability to easily reproduce your work also makes it convenient to fine-tune the analysis when you present your initial work and come back with further modifications to be done, a common iterative process in real-life data analysis.

Using R Markdown...