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Introduction to R Markdown Advantages Of Markdown What is R Markdown? Why use R Markdown? Getting started with R Markdown...

Introduction to R Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language and created by John Gruber in 2004. Nowadays markdown is one of the world’s most popular markup languages. The file extension of a Markdown file is .md or .markdown. To compile a markdown file user needs an application capable of processing markdown files like Microsoft Word, Dillinger, etc. These applications utilize a Markdown parser which converts a markdown file to printable HTML code....

Advantages Of Markdown

It is mostly used to write formatted pages across several platforms like StackOverflow, Github, and many more. It’s not made just for programmers, because one can write E-Books with it using leanpub. Convertible to formats like PDF, HTML, docs etc. Markdown Files can be converted easily to web pages using tools like Github Pages, smallvictori.es, and blot.im....

What is R Markdown?

R Markdown is a way of generating fully reproducible documents, in which both text and code can be combined. That’s how things can be made as bullets, bold, italics, links, or run inline R codes. Despite these documents all starting as plain text, one can render them into HTML pages, or PDFs, or Word documents, or slides! The symbols that use to signal, for example, bold or italics is compatible with all of those formats....

Why use R Markdown?

One of the main advantages is the reproducibility of using R Markdown. Since it can simply combine text and code pieces in one document, and can easily combine introductions, hypotheses, the code that is running, the results of that code, and the conclusions all in one document. Sharing what you did, why you did it, and how it turned out becomes so easy and that person you share it with can re-run your code and get the correct same answers you got. That’s what reproducibility means. But also, seldom you will be working on a project that takes many weeks to complete and you want to be able to see what you did a long time ago and you can see accurately what you ran and the results of that code and R Markdown documents permits you to do that. Another major advantage to R Markdown is that since it is plain text, it works very well with version control systems. It is simple to track what character changes happen between commits; unlike other formats that aren’t plain text. Another selfish advantage of R Markdown is it is very easy to use. Like everything in R, this extended functionality comes from an R package “rmarkdown.” All one needs to do is to install it by giving this command install.packages(“rmarkdown”)....

Getting started with R Markdown

To create an R Markdown document, in R Studio, go to File > New File > R Markdown. The following window will appear:...