R Markdown: A Modest Guide

Note to Students: This guide is available on my website, which Blackboard will link to. The source files are also available on GitHub

Note to Everyone Else: This guide is oriented primarily for my Econometrics class at Hood College, but should be of wider use to anyone interested in learning R for data analysis. Lecture slides, handouts, and guides (both PDFs and source code in R Markdown) are openly available on GitHub.

See also my companion guide to using R hosted on my website, with source available also on GitHub

This repository comes with several files to help you practice learning R Markdown:

• RMDG.Rmd is the raw R Markdown file (.Rmd) that generates the readable guide
• RMDG.html is the readable guide in html form, simply download and open in any web browser
• Rmd_practice.Rmd is a raw .Rmd that you can edit and then knit to produce an html file with your answers.
• Rmd_practice.html is a readable html output of the .Rmd file: you can't edit it, but it is what the final product will look like.
• Rmd_practice_answers.Rmd contains the answers to the practice questions, in the raw .Rmd format, which can be knitted to produce:
• Rmd_practice_answers.html is the readable final product as html output
• bibexample.bib is an example bibliography .bib file used as a demonstration in the guide
• mybib.bib is an example bibliography .bib file for practicing citations in the Rmd_practice files.
• econfreedom.csv is the dataset used in the Rmd_practice questions
• From_rmd_to_latex_to_pdf shows how knit converts .Rmd into .tex into pdf, showing what the code (or output) looks like at each stage (see both the raw .Rmd and the final pdf)