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.
