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Learning Objectives

Dive into Rmarkdown for for knitting formatted text (markdown) with chunks of evaluated R code into html, pdf and docx formats. Use Rmarkdown for single page reports, bookdown for reports with chapters, flexdashboard for dashboards and Rmarkdown websites for simple websites with shared navigation. Automatically render with Github Actions.

Rmarkdown basics
- YAML as frontmatter of Rmd, _site.yml for Rmd website
- Rmarkdown Cheatsheets
- RStudio’s Visual Markdown Editor
- R code as chunks or inline
- Navigate: toc sidebar, chunk dropdown, knit gear options, insert chunk
- Equations
- Tables
- References with citr
- pandoc: docx for track changes editing, pdf (tinytex) for archive
- html options: toc floating, code hide/show
- bslib
Product formats
- website
  - source: report-website
  - format: Rmd website
  - techniques:
    - Parameterized reports
    - Render automatically with Github Action
- dashboard
  - source: report-website
  - format: flexdashboard
  - technique: knitr::knit_expand()
- book
  - source: report-book
  - format: bookdown
- slides
  - source: report-slides.Rmd
  - format: xaringan
- article
  - source: report-article
  - format: rticles

4.1 Rmd Website

4.2 Source:

4.2.1 Parameterize Rmd

4.2.2 Automatic generation with Github Action

4.3 Flexdashboard

Another example source: table of ships to ship detail.

4.3.1 Synchronize time selection in dygraphs

Synchronization

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