class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # R Markdown ## A Software Ecosystem for Reproducible Publications ### <a href="https://yihui.org">Yihui Xie</a>, RStudio ### 2019/07/29 @ JSM, Denver --- class: center .pull-left[ ### Should we trust our eyes? ]  .footnote[Image via [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/398427898266239568/)] --- ## Seeing is not necessarily believing. ## Verbal instructions are ambiguous. ## If it is not automated, it will be both hard and tedious to reproduce in the future (even by yourself). --- # Why R Markdown? -- ### Incredible _simplicity_ of Markdown (vs LaTeX, Word, HTML, ...) -- ### Generates a _wide_ range of output formats, simple or sophisticated -- ### Computationally _reproducible_ (automatic report generation) --- class: center, middle, inverse # Demo time ### A few things you could do with a single R Markdown document --- # Even more things you could do ### [Write a thesis/dissertation](https://pagedown.rbind.io/thesis-paged/) ### [Create a resume](https://pagedown.rbind.io/html-resume/) ### [Design a poster](https://pagedown.rbind.io/poster-relaxed/) ### [Print a business card](https://pagedown.rbind.io/business-card/) ### [Write a letter](https://pagedown.rbind.io/html-letter) ### ... --- background-image: url(https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/19177171/60126180-b129cb80-978d-11e9-8e32-7ba48f303b6f.png) background-size: contain --- background-image: url(https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/163582/46879762-7a34a500-ce0c-11e8-87e3-496f3577ff05.png) background-size: contain --- background-image: url(https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/163582/47672385-e12dba00-db7f-11e8-92de-af94d5bab12f.jpg) background-size: contain --- background-image: url(https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/163582/49780277-7b326780-fcd3-11e8-9eb6-69e46292158c.png) background-size: contain --- background-image: url(https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/163582/47741877-68933000-dc49-11e8-94f8-92724b67e9a6.png) --- background-image: url(https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/163582/47872372-61e8f200-dddc-11e8-839b-d8e8ef8f51eb.png) background-size: contain --- class: center # Still not convinced? ## One more demo: create _interactive reports_ with Shiny + R Markdown ## https://yihui.shinyapps.io/face-pi/ --- background-image: url(https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/images/cover.png) --- class: center, middle # Thank you! ## R Markdown: [rmarkdown.rstudio.com](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com) ## Slides: [bit.ly/jsm-rmarkdown](http://bit.ly/jsm-rmarkdown)