What is RMarkdown?

What is RMarkdown?

In an RMarkdown document:

• What you type in text becomes your story

• What you write as code makes your own figures 📊

  • code is written in fences with back-ticks

• You can link in:

  • pictures 🎨
  • YT videos 🎥 from the web

• Data / Code / Figures / Pictures / Document together

• In a document that "computes"

What is RMarkdown?

Click on the File -> RMarkdown

Editing your Markdown

Editing your Markdown

• Everything is text

• Wrap Words in stars:

  • *italics*: Single stars give you italics

  • **bold**: Two stars give you bold text

  • ***bold italic***: Three stars bold italics

  • ~~deleted~~: Tildes give you deleted text

Editing your Markdown

• Hashes(##) become new Section Titles in text

• Ctrl+Alt+I / CMD+Alt+I give fenced code "chunks" which will "run". (Green "Play" button)

  • Hashes(#) inside code chunks give you new #comments in code

• "$mathstuff$": becomes $mathstuff$ (Nooo...please! No!)

  • "$sin^2(x)+cos^2(x) = 1$": $si{n}^2\left(x\right)+co{s}^2\left(x\right)=1$ (I think)

• "emoji("laughing")" becomes 😆

Editing your Markdown

• All this done with plain text.

• Just your keyboard and you.

• Mouses and Touchpads are for....(your favourite word of ridicule here).

Knitting your Markdown 🧶

Hitting the knit button 🧶 does one of many things: