R Markdown Cookbook - Paperback

by Yihui Xie (Author), Christophe Dervieux (Author), Emily Riederer (Author)

This new book written by the developers of R Markdown is an essential reference that will help users learn and make full use of the software.

Those new to R Markdown will appreciate the short, practical examples that address the most common issues users encounter. Frequent users will also benefit from the wide ranging tips and tricks that expose 'hidden' features, support customization and demonstrate the many new and varied applications of the software.

After reading this book users will learn how to:

• Enhance your R Markdown content with diagrams, citations, and dynamically generated text
• Streamline your workflow with child documents, code chunk references, and caching
• Control the formatting and layout with Pandoc markdown syntax or by writing custom HTML and LaTeX templates
• Utilize chunk options and hooks to fine-tune how your code is processed
• Switch between different language engineers to seamlessly incorporate python, D3, and more into your analysis

Author Biography

Yihui Xie is a software engineer at RStudio. He has authored and co-authored several R packages, including knitr, rmarkdown, bookdown, blogdown, pagedown, tinytex, and xaringan. He has published R Markdown: The Definitive Guide, Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown, and blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown."

Christophe Dervieux is an active member of the R community. Working with R since almost 10 years, he is interested in helping others get the most from R. As an R developer, he is a regular contributor to several R packages, such as "bookdown", "rmarkdown", and "knitr".

Emily Riederer is an active R user and developer. She has previously contributed to "knitr" and is best known for her article on "R Markdown Driven Development" based on her experience promoting R adoption in industry.