This is an R Markdown file, a plain text file that has the extension .Rmd. You can open a copy here on RStudio Cloud.
Notice that the file contains three types of content:
Readhtml: Read in.html Content Description. Read in the content from a.html file. This is generalized, reading in all body text. For finer control the user should utilize the xml2 and rvest packages. Streaming CRAN data. This is a dashboard that displays streaming data from the RStudio CRAN mirror logs. The streaming data is a 1-week-delayed live stream of download logs from cran.rstudio.com. There are a number of options available for displaying tables within Distill articles, including: Using the knitr::kable function to render a data frame as HTML. Using the rmarkdown::pagedtable function to create a page-able version of a data frame. Use the gtsummary and gt packages to create to create publication-ready analytical and summary tables.
- An (optional) YAML header surrounded by
---s - R code chunks surrounded by
```s - text mixed with simple text formatting
A Notebook Interface
When you open the file in the RStudio IDE, it becomes a notebook interface for R. You can run each code chunk by clicking the icon. RStudio executes the code and display the results inline with your file.
Rendering output
To generate a report from the file, run the render command:
Better still, use the “Knit” button in the RStudio IDE to render the file and preview the output with a single click or keyboard shortcut (⇧⌘K).
R Markdown generates a new file that contains selected text, code, and results from the .Rmd file. The new file can be a finished web page, PDF, MS Word document, slide show, notebook, handout, book, dashboard, package vignette or other format.
How it works
When you run render, R Markdown feeds the .Rmd file to knitr, which executes all of the code chunks and creates a new markdown (.md) document which includes the code and its output.
Rstudio Html Converter
The markdown file generated by knitr is then processed by pandoc which is responsible for creating the finished format.
Rstudio Html To Pdf
This may sound complicated, but R Markdown makes it extremely simple by encapsulating all of the above processing into a single render function.