R Markdown: Glossary

Literate programming allows mixing text, code and outputs

It enables reproducible research by coupling analysis with reporting

Markdown is a way of writing text files in a structured way.

R Markdown allows integration of R code with Markdown.

Chunk options can be used to control formatting.

Set parameters in the YAML with params:

Access parameters in code using params$<NAME>

Create multiple documents from the same .Rmd document using rmarkdown::render

Control the output format in the YAML with output:

References can used in bibtex format