Introduction

Check out first-look.Rmd.

0.4 Formative assessments

1. Identify the basic anatomy of an R Markdown document.
   • Which part is the YAML?
   • Which part(s) are text written in Markdown?
   • Which part(s) are R code?
2. Knit an R Markdown document to HTML.
   • Which part(s) are output? (answer: all plots, printed output)
   • How can we control what the code and/or output look like?
3. Add headers in an R Markdown document to improve organization and usability of your text.
   • How do we add headers in Markdown? (answer: # symbols, up to 6)
   • What features of the IDE can you leverage when you do that?
4. Add names to code chunks to improve organization and usability of your R code.
   • How do we add chunk names? (answer: knitr)
   • What features of the IDE can you leverage when you do that?
5. Change output options for a given output format.
   • How do we change output options? (answer: YAML)
   • How do we add an output option like toc to the HTML format?