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Great Online R Markdown Resources

Smith, Z. M. (2020, March 2). R Markdown Crash Course. https://zsmith27.github.io/rmarkdown_crash-course/index.html

Xie, Y., Dervieux, C., & Riederer, E. (2026, September 17). R Markdown Cookbook. https://pkg.yihui.org/rmarkdown-cookbook/

Bryan, J., the STAT 545 TAs, & Hester, J. (n.d.). Let’s Git started. Retrieved August 14, 2025, from https://happygitwithr.com/

Package dependencies

There are many R packages that make writing documents like this especially easy. These must be installed in your system.

install.packages("tidyverse")

R Markdown conventions

bookdown

• To omit the automatic numbering, add {-} to the end of the line for each header–e.g., lines that start with one or more hash # characters.

# Top-level header without numbers {-}

## Second-level header without numbers {-}

knitr

Inserting images

To insert an image, you will need to insert an R code chunk (opt+command+I on MacOS; alt+ctrl+I on Windows).

`r ''````{r, out.width="100%", fig.align="center", fig.cap="This is a great figure from Seisler et al. 2023."}
knitr::insert_graphics("path/to/img_file")
```

What are Code Chunks & Inline Code?

Learn more about Code Chunks & Inline Code.