From the course: Creating Reports and Presentations with R Markdown and RStudio

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What else can you build with R Markdown?

What else can you build with R Markdown? - RStudio Tutorial

From the course: Creating Reports and Presentations with R Markdown and RStudio

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What else can you build with R Markdown?

- [Presenter] R Markdown is incredibly versatile, allowing us to create a vast range of different types of content designed for different users and different use cases. The simplest way to categorize the stuff we can make with R Markdown is by looking at file formats. The two most popular formats we can output are HTML, which creates content for the web, and PDF, which is particularly good if you need to print things out. However we can also fit R Markdown directly into a Microsoft Office workflow by generating PowerPoint and Word files. But let's think a little bit bigger about what we can build with R Markdown. R Markdown can instantly generate HTML reports and presentations out of the box but it's also possible to create fully featured blog style web pages by combining the R Markdown package with Blogdown. Let's have a quick look at an example Blogdown website, the R-Podcast site. Here we can see on the homepage of The R-Podcast website, each of the episodes of our podcast. If we…

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