If the practical tips for R Markdown post we talked briefly about how we can easily create professional reports directly from R scripts, without the need for converting them manually to Rmd and creating code chunks. In this one, we will provide useful tips on advanced options for styling, using themes and producing light-weight HTML reports directly from R scripts. We will also provide a repository with example R script and rendering code to get different styled and sized outputs easily.
R Markdown is a great tool to use for creating reports, presentations and even websites that contain evaluated and rendered code. This can help us immensely when presenting data science type of work to audiences, while still being able to version control the content creation process. One of the challenges that stay is reproducibility of the rendered results. In this post, I will list a few sources of reproducibility issues I came across and how I tried to solve them.
Including R Markdown in the workflow for presenting and publishing analyses that use code in R or other languages is a great way to make presentations, dashboards or reports good looking, reproducible and version controllable. In this post, we will look at three simple ways to improve that workflow even further with methods that are lesser known and can make producing results with R Markdown more efficient and reviewing them more interactive.