16 Different Outputs and Extensions
For a scientific report to be completely credible, it must be reproducible. The full computational environment used to derive the results, including the data and code used for statistical analysis should be available for others to reproduce. quarto is a tool that allows you integrate your code, text and figures in a single file in order to make high quality, reproducible reports. A paper published with an included quarto file and data sets can be reproduced by anyone with a computer.
There are many different outputs for rmarkdown - as a start, THIS VERY BOOK IS WRITTEN IN RMARKDOWN! How cool is that?
16.1 Alternative output formats
- write a book with bookdown
- build a website with blogdown
- create a simple dashboard with flexdashboard
- generate learning exercises with
learnr - generate multiple reports with parameterised reports
- tufte
16.1.1 Slideshows
16.1.2 For Journals
Note that if you are using a template and want the full featured citation features,
your YAML will need to include something like this:
output:
bookdown::pdf_book:
base_format: rticles::plos_article