Suitable for both beginners and advanced users, this popular book makes writing statistical reports easier by integrating computing directly with reporting. Reports range from homework, projects, exams, books, blogs, and web pages to virtually any documents related to statistical graphics, computing, and data analysis. This edition includes a new chapter on R Markdown v2, changes that reflect improvements in the knitr package, and several new sections. Demos and other information about the package are available on the author's website.
Yihui Xie is a software engineer at RStudio. He earned a PhD from the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. His research focuses on interactive statistical graphics and statistical computing. He is an active R user and the author of several award-winning R packages, such as animation, formatR, Rd2roxygen, and knitr. He is also the founder of "Capital of Statistics," a large online statistics community in China.
Introduction. Reproducible Research. A First Look. Editors. Document Formats. Text Output. Graphics. Cache. Cross Reference. Hooks. Language Engines. Tricks and Solutions. Publishing Reports. R Markdown. Applications. Other Tools. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.