In dtkaplan/ICOTS-2014: My first collection of functions

Using R Markdown

We encourage instructors to make class notes incorporating R. The RMarkdown system provides an easy way to do this.

We have asked you to copy this file to your system and open it in the RStudio editor. If you have done this, you'll see a text file with a file extension of .Rmd containing lines like

## Using R Markdown

It can be helpful to work directly from the .Rmd file from the RStudio editor in class. It provides a convenient place to store the commands you plan to use in class.

Even better, you can compile, or "knit", the file into HTML suitable for web publication. Press the "Knit HTML" button in the RStudio editor An HTML document will be create that contain the R commands, the output they generate, and any narrative you care to include. (All of this text is narrative.)

Publishing

How might you distribute notes and other files to your students? There are several possibilities.

For today, within the workshop, we will use a very simple tool called RPubs.

Using RPubs

After compiling your document, look at it in the RStudio previewer. There is a button labelled "Publish." Push it!

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