October 22, 2014

The Tools

The Mentality

  • I'm tired of Word's formatting quirks
  • I'm tired of copying and pasting results
  • I no longer want to email files back and forth
  • I want a record of what I did
  • I want a more efficient workflow

R Markdown

This is an R Markdown presentation. 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.

Slide with Bullets

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Slide with R Code and Output

summary(cars)
##      speed           dist    
##  Min.   : 4.0   Min.   :  2  
##  1st Qu.:12.0   1st Qu.: 26  
##  Median :15.0   Median : 36  
##  Mean   :15.4   Mean   : 43  
##  3rd Qu.:19.0   3rd Qu.: 56  
##  Max.   :25.0   Max.   :120

Slide with Plot

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Setting Up Git…Caution, FRUSTRATION Awaits

This can be challenging, but these resources should help:

Note: I have no experience working with git on Windows. I would try using the command line help above. It looks pretty good. It uses Beanstalk as the remote host, but setup for GitHub should be similar. Just replace Beanstalk with GitHub.

Demo

if (slide == "Demo") {
  do_demo()
} else {
  continue_presentation()
}

Stop getting stuck…

Jump out of the box…

and Do Work!