Ten awesome R Markdown tricks

R Markdown is more versatile than you might think

Keith McNulty
Towards Data Science
8 min readDec 18, 2020

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Though I code in both R and Python, R Markdown is my only route for writing reports, blogs or books. It is incredibly flexible, has many beautiful design options and supports many output formats really nicely.

If you have never worked in R Markdown, I highly recommend it. If you have worked in it before, here are ten little tricks I’ve learned which have served me well in numerous projects, and which highlight how flexible it is.

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