From the course: Creating Reports and Presentations with R Markdown and RStudio
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Writing HTML reports in R Markdown - RStudio Tutorial
From the course: Creating Reports and Presentations with R Markdown and RStudio
Writing HTML reports in R Markdown
- [Instructor] R Markdown allows us to create rich, interactive HTML reports. Let's consider the advantages of creating HTML reports in R Markdown. What exactly do we mean by HTML report? Well every webpage you've ever visited is an HTML document of varying complexity. So the R Markdown HTML reports that we can generate are therefore webpages that we can view in a browser and host online. R Markdown HTML reports are therefore extremely useful for R users as they allow us to create content for the web without a deep knowledge of web development. It's also fairly easy to create responsively designed reports that look great on mobile. With minimal additional effort your webpages will reflow and look beautiful in Android devices, iPhones, iPads and more. In addition to these benefits, in R there are a number of packages called htmlwidgets. These allow us to create rich interactive charts, maps and more without needing to add JavaScript. These htmlwidget data visualizations can be easily…
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