It's a very simple markup language with plain text formatting syntax it is planned with the goal that it can be changed over to HTML which provides methods for creating documents with headers, images, links etc. To get R Markdown working in RStudio, the first thing you need is the rmarkdown package, which you can get from CRAN by running the following commands in RStudio: In addition to all of that, any basic text editor can be used to create a markdown document but, in this post, we will use RStudio which it's already comes with a text editor. Also, R Markdown documents are fully reproducible.
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R Markdown is a great way in documenting your analysis and share it with others.
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R code is evaluated as part of the processing of the markdown.R Markdown is the integration of R code with markdown, the characteristics of R Markdown file: Markdown Syntax has a very gentle learning curve, you can download any Markdown text editor or use Gruber’s browser-based dingus and start writing. Not only Markdown is easier to type and read but also, it’s accessible to someone who doesn’t know anything about HTML language, in addition to that, Markdown characters are easier to remember.