R Markdown

This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents. For more details on using R Markdown see http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com.

When you click the Knit button a document will be generated that includes both content as well as the output of any embedded R code chunks within the document. You can embed an R code chunk like this:

summary(cars)

##      speed           dist       
##  Min.   : 4.0   Min.   :  2.00  
##  1st Qu.:12.0   1st Qu.: 26.00  
##  Median :15.0   Median : 36.00  
##  Mean   :15.4   Mean   : 42.98  
##  3rd Qu.:19.0   3rd Qu.: 56.00  
##  Max.   :25.0   Max.   :120.00

Including Plots

You can also embed plots, for example:

library(ggplot2)
g <- ggplot(cars, aes(x=speed, y=dist)) +
     geom_point(color="dodgerblue") +
     theme_minimal() +
     labs(title = "Cars Dataset")
print(g)

plot of chunk ggcars

Directions for writing Rmd to Md files for Jekyll blogs

  1. Launch RStudio, Start project in _drafts folder of your jekyll page repo
  2. File > New File > R Markdown file
  3. Edit yaml header to mimic jekyll with title and layout parameters and save file a. make sure to include the figure path in the knitr chuck options: knitr::opts_chunk$set(fig.path=’https://jasdumas.github.io/post_data/exploring-the-cars-dataset-‘) with your desired folder outputs
  4. First time only: create r2jekyll.R file which creates the .md file and does some house keeping about figures
  5. Go to Terminal and change directory to the drafts folder cd /Users/jasminedumas/Desktop/GitHub\ Clone\ Repos/jasdumas.github.io/_drafts/
  6. Change permission of r2jekyll.R file with: chmod +x r2jekyll.R
  7. Execute ./r2jekyll.R demo.Rmd changing the .Rmd file name

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