25 Nov Customizing reports with Rmarkdown – ONLINE
- 04/03/2021
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Course details
statistics course | level: intermediate |
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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text, resulting in a more convenient work flow and more reproducible research (no more cutting and pasting the wrong or outdated graph into your report).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
- Automation of reports
- Citations and bibliography
- R (https://cran.r-project.org)
- Packages: tidyverse, rmarkdown, knitr, kableExtra, pander
- RStudio (https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/)
- Miktex (https://miktex.org)
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Prerequisites
The workshop is open to everyone with some basic experience using R.
For the practical, following software needs to be installed:
Background readings
Fee
Phd’s and post-docs of a Flemish University: free
Venue
online - via Bongo Virtual Classroom
Instructor
Dries Reynders