
R Markdown allows an author to write sections of text, together with sections of R code. R Markdown is commonly used to create notebooks for the results of statistical analysis in R. There are other styles available, and you can create and modify your own styles. This tutorial uses the styles available in the bookdown package. In a second step, the R Markdown document is compiled to display the content in a particular style. In an R Markdown document the content is written in plain text without any styling. In a typical word-processor, like Microsoft Word, an author formats the style of the content as they create it, the two are bound together. R Markdown offers a convenient way to create content in plain-text, and then display the content as a.
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pdf or website by clicking the Knit button. You can compile the document to see what it will look like as a. The new document shows some example syntax for writing in R Markdown. This will open a window allowing you to name your new document, and then will open the new R Markdown document in the R-studio text editor. You can open a new R Markdown (.rmd) file from Rstudio through the file menu (New File -> R markdown…), or by clicking the green plus sign icon in the top left-hand corner of R-studio, and choosing R Markdown.



1.1 Open online educational resources (OERs).Open tools for writing open interactive textbooks (and more).
