Unit 1: R Markdown

In this set of notes, you will learn how to integrate R syntax directly into your word-processed documents to create more reproducible reports.

Preparation

Before class you will need to do the following:

Download the sample BibTeX file
Download the CSL style file for the American Psychological Association 6th edition (single-spaced bibliography) from Zotero’s repository.
Install the R package tinytex. See the documentation here.

Read the following:

Rmarkdown (and friends) Tutorial

1.1 Notes

The notes and files you will need can be found at:

Unit 01: R Markdown [Class Notes]

1.2 Other Resources

In addition to the notes and what we cover in class, there many other resources for learning about R Markdown. Here are some resources that may be helpful in that endeavor:

R Markdown documentation: Official R Markdown documentation from RStudio
R Markdown cheatsheet: What it sounds like; a cheatsheet for R Markdown
knitr: Document and code chunk options for R Markdown
R Markdown Gallery: - Gallery of some R Markdown outputs
Pimp my Rmd: Blog post providing a few tips to improve the appearance of output documents.

For typesetting equations using R Markdown, check out:

Using LaTeX to write mathematical content

For integrating references into R Markdown, here are a few resources:

Here are some references for using reveal.js and remark.js to create sweet-looking presentations:

Finally here are some other tools for using Markdown in academia:

Create a poster with the posterdown package