Author Description

<p>R Markdown: The Definitive Guide is the first official book authored by the core R Markdown developers that provides a comprehensive and accurate reference to the R Markdown ecosystem. With R Markdown, you can easily create reproducible data analysis reports, presentations, dashboards, interactive applications, books, dissertations, websites, and journal articles, while enjoying the simplicity of Markdown and the great power of R and other languages. </p> <p></p> <p>In this book, you will learn</p> <ul> <p> <li>Basics: Syntax of Markdown and R code chunks, how to generate figures and tables, and how to use other computing languages </li> <p></p> <p> <li>Built-in output formats of R Markdown: PDF/HTML/Word/RTF/Markdown documents and ioslides/Slidy/Beamer/PowerPoint presentations </li> <p></p> <p> <li>Extensions and applications: Dashboards, Tufte handouts, xaringan/reveal.js presentations, websites, books, journal articles, and interactive tutorials </li> <p></p> <p> <li>Advanced topics: Parameterized reports, HTML widgets, document templates, custom output formats, and Shiny documents. </li> <p></p></ul> <p></p><b> <p>Yihui Xie</b> is a software engineer at RStudio. He has authored and co-authored several R packages, including knitr, rmarkdown, bookdown, blogdown, shiny, xaringan, and animation. He has published three other books, <i>Dynamic Documents with R and knitr</i>, <i>bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown</i>, and <i>blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown</i>.</p> <p></p><b> <p>J.J. Allaire</b> is the founder of RStudio and the creator of the RStudio IDE. He is an author of several packages in the R Markdown ecosystem including rmarkdown, flexdashboard, learnr, and radix.</p> <p></p><b> <p>Garrett Grolemund</b> is the co-author of <i>R for Data Science</i> and author of <i>Hands-On Programming with R</i>. He wrote the lubridate R package and works for RStudio as an advocate who trains engineers to do data science with R an