STAT 184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Rstudio, Yaml, Pandoc
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So far, we haven"t emphasized formatting at all (on purpose) In our class (and for most purposes beyond our class) the content of your report is far more important than the formatting. Sometimes a bit of formatting to make a document look nicer has value too (hopefully never at the expense of content) Markdown, latex, and others provide the ability to separate content and formatting (as opposed to a wysiwyg like ms word) By the way, the embedded . rmd is much more useful than the html notes for this discussion. If you hang around rmarkdown long enough, you"ll hear a lot about knitr, yaml, pandoc, and other odd terms related to configuring the resulting document produced. Even if it all feels a bit jumbled together, you can still learn to troubleshoot and accomplish what you"re after in most cases. It"s probably best to tackle most of these things only when the need arrises.
