Literate programming

Combining text, data, and code in R Markdown

Literate programming involves embedding all of the code used to generate statistics and figures into the documents used to present them. We will learn how to use R Markdown to embed data and code into our documents.

Learning objectives

• Distinguish between plaintext and binary file types
• Create and work with R scripts
• Learn basic Markdown syntax
• Create new R Markdown documents
• Insert R code into R Markdown documents both inline and as code chunks

Pre-meeting

To prepare for this class meeting, please do the following:

• Read R Markdown, complete Markdown tutorial

Class meeting

• File types
• Interacting with R
• Writing scripts
• Literate programming
• Markdown
• R Markdown
• Slides and Code

Homework after the class meeting

Wrap up this lesson

• Complete the exercises

For next class meeting

• Read R4DS1 20