R Markdown: The Definitive Guide

The R Series

by Yihui Xie, J.J. Allaire, Garrett Grolemund

R Markdown: The Definitive Guide is the first official book authored by the core R Markdown developers that provides a comprehensive and accurate reference to the R Markdown ecosystem. With R Markdown, you can easily create reproducible data analysis reports, presentations, dashboards, interactive applications, books, dissertations, websites, and journal articles, while enjoying the simplicity of Markdown and the great power of R and other languages.

In this book, you will learn



Basics: Syntax of Markdown and R code chunks, how to generate figures and tables, and how to use other computing languages

Built-in output formats of R Markdown: PDF/HTML/Word/RTF/Markdown documents and ioslides/Slidy/Beamer/PowerPoint presentations

Extensions and applications: Dashboards, Tufte handouts, xaringan/reveal.js presentations, websites, books, journal articles, and interactive tutorials

Advanced topics: Parameterized reports, HTML widgets, document templates, custom output formats, and Shiny documents. Yihui Xie is a software engineer at RStudio. He has authored and co-authored several R packages, including knitr, rmarkdown, bookdown, blogdown, shiny, xaringan, and animation. He has published three other books, Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown, and blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown.

J.J. Allaire is the founder of RStudio and the creator of the RStudio IDE. He is an author of several packages in the R Markdown ecosystem including rmarkdown, flexdashboard, learnr, and radix.

Garrett Grolemund is the co-author of R for Data Science and author of Hands-On Programming with R. He wrote the lubridate R package and works for RStudio as an advocate who trains engineers to do data science with R and the Tidyverse.

Genres: Programming, Nonfiction

304 pages, Hardcover

Published July 25, 2018

Reviews

[Huong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very thorough and practical. I'm looking forward to more additions to the current work so that R works more efficiently across multiple platforms.

[Akbar Ato · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is long, but you should treat as a manual. You can return when you want.

This book taught me playing with CSS design may be cool but distracting, as our tastes always change. Instead, it helps focus on what matters the most, writing.

R Markdown is flexible. You can convert it into books, blogs, dissertations, posters, cards, presentations.

R is increasingly becoming popular. So, it’s worth learning.