How I Teach R Markdown

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Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo

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April 22, 2025

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By Alison Hill

Excerpt from blog: So without further ado, here are some of my guiding principles when introducing R Markdown to beginners, for those who are ready to go beyond casual knitter:

  1. Link to blog: https://www.apreshill.com/blog/2020-05-how-i-teach-r-markdown/

Screenshot of an R Markdown file in RStudio. The YAML header includes the title “Untitled,” author “Alison Hill,” date “8/30/2019,” and output format “html_document.” Below, markdown headers from level 1 to 6 are written using # symbols, each labeled “HEADER” followed by its number. A navigation dropdown at the bottom shows a list of headers from the file. The preview pane on the right shows the nested headers rendered in HTML.

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