Welcome to Using R Markdown (beginner)

R Markdown turns your analyses into high-quality, elegantly formatted, and fully reproducible output by putting together narrative text, code and plots. This workshop will walk you through the creation and usage of R Markdown. See the UBC library Research Commons event calendar for related workshops on various topics.

Prerequisites

This workshop assumes basic familiarity with R and R Studio, but all learners are welcome to participate. Participants are expected to have installed the latest versions of R and RStudio on their computers before the workshop: Install R from https://cran.rstudio.com/ Install RStudio from https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download

Learning objectives

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

1. Understand what R Markdown is and why it’s useful
2. Create and compile an R Markdown file in RStudio
3. Recognize the basic structure of an R Markdown file

Schedule

Resources

• R Markdown Lessons from R Studio
• R Markdown cheatsheet
• R Markdown Gallery
• R Markdown Reference Guide
• R Markdown: The Definitive Guide (Book)
• R Markdown Crash Course
• Markdown Tutorial

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