Customizing reports with Rmarkdown – ONLINE

Course details

statistics course | level: intermediate | register now
for questions related to this event, contact ugent@flames-statistics.com
affiliation: Ghent University

Abstract

Rmarkdown provides a seamless integration of R-code and text, resulting in a more convenient work flow and more reproducible research (no more cutting and pasting the wrong or outdated graph into your report).
This workshop presents the basics of Rmarkdown. After a slide show presenting the different components, code illustrating different aspects is made available to the participants to run through, test and question in a short practical session.
What you will learn:

• Selecting output formats
• Basic customization
• Advanced customization:
• Focus on pdf output
• References for other output-types
• Tables: basic and comple
• Including figures:
• Graphs produced in R
• External figures
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• Automation of reports
• Citations and bibliography



Prerequisites

The workshop is open to everyone with some basic experience using R.
For the practical, following software needs to be installed:


• R (https://cran.r-project.org)
• Packages: tidyverse, rmarkdown, knitr, kableExtra, pander
• RStudio (https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/)
• Miktex (https://miktex.org)



Background readings




Fee

Phd’s and post-docs of a Flemish University: free




Venue

online - via Bongo Virtual Classroom




Instructor

Dries Reynders