Creating Reports and Presentations with R Markdown and RStudio

Transform the findings from your data science projects into high-quality reports and presentations. Learn how to create interactive web experiences and printable PDFs.

Introduction

• Report your data with R Markdown
• What you should know

1. What Can You Build with R Markdown?

• What is Markdown?
• What is R Markdown?
• Writing PDF reports in R Markdown
• Writing HTML reports in R Markdown
• Writing HTML presentations in R Markdown
• What else can you build with R Markdown?

2. Setting Up LaTeX for R Markdown PDF Outputs

• What are LaTeX and BibTeX?
• Setting up TeX for generating R Markdown reports
• Installing Pandoc

3. Understanding the Basics of R Markdown Documents

• Installing R Markdown
• R Markdown, knitting, and generating outputs
• The YAML header of an .Rmd file
• Code chunks and global code chunk settings
• Writing and running R code in R Markdown files
• Splitting documents into sections or slides in R Markdown
• Tabbed sections in R Markdown HTML reports
• Formatting text in R Markdown files
• Bullets and lists in R Markdown

4. Preventing Gotchas

• Name your code chunks sensibly
• Including code from script files

5. Creating Slides in R Markdown

• What are Slidy, ioslides, and Beamer?
• Features of ioslides presentations
• Features of Slidy presentations
• PDF presentations with Beamer

6. Using ggplot2 Charts in R Markdown

• ggplot2 and plots in R Markdown documents
• Globally set figure size
• Change the size of individual outputs

7. Inserting Images into R Markdown Output

• Inserting images with include_graphics()
• Inserting images using raw HTML
• Inserting images using raw LaTeX
• Inserting URL based images using raw LaTeX

8. Inserting Tables into R Markdown Output

• Displaying tables in R Markdown
• Markdown tables in .Rmd
• Formatting printed data.frames and Tibbles
• Formatting tables with kable()
• Interactive tables with DT

9. Captions with bookdown

• Captions in R Markdown
• Captions with bookdown

10. Customizing Styles in R Markdown

• Using custom styles in R Markdown
• Styling HTML reports in R Markdown
• Styling PDF reports in R Markdown

11. Overriding Markdown in .Rmd

• Overriding Markdown in .Rmd files
• Display LaTeX or HTML in .Rmd files
• Run LaTeX in PDF documents
• Run HTML in R Markdown

12. htmlwidgets and R Markdown

• htmlwidgets and R Markdown
• htmlwidgets in PDF .Rmd documents
• htmlwidgets in HTML .Rmd documents

13. Publishing R Markdown HTML Content to RPubs.com

• Publishing with RPubs.com
• Publishing R Markdown HTML to the web

Conclusion

• Next steps