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Reporting with R Markdown

Intermediate

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Updated 05/2025

R Markdown is an easy-to-use formatting language for authoring dynamic reports from R code.

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Course Description

R Markdown is an easy to use formatting language you can use to reveal insights from data and author your findings as a PDF, HTML file, or Shiny app. In this course, you'll learn how to create and modify each element of a Markdown file, including the code, text, and metadata. You'll analyze data with dplyr, create visualizations with ggplot2, and author your analyses and plots as reports. You’ll gain hands-on experience of building reports as you work with real-world data from the International Finance Corporation (IFC)—learning how to efficiently organize reports using code chunk options, create lists and tables, and include a table of contents. By the end of the course, you'll have the skills you need to add your brand’s fonts and colors using parameters and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), to make your reports stand out.

Prerequisites

Introduction to the Tidyverse

1

Getting Started with R Markdown

Introduction to R Markdown

Creating your first R Markdown file

Adding code chunks to your file

Adding and formatting text

Formatting text

Adding sections to your report

Including links and images

The YAML header

Editing the YAML header

Formatting the date

2

Adding Analyses and Visualizations

Analyzing the data

Filtering for a specific country

Filtering for a specific year

Referencing code results in the report

Adding plots

Visualizing the Investment Annual Summary data

Visualizing all projects for one country

Visualizing all projects for one country and year

Plot options

Setting chunk options globally

Setting chunk options locally

Adding figure captions

3

Improving the Report

Organizing the report

Creating a bulleted list

Creating a numbered list

Adding a table

Code chunk options

Comparing code chunk options

Collapsing blocks in the knit report

Modifying the report using include and echo

Warnings, messages, and errors

Excluding messages

Excluding warnings

4

Customizing the Report

Adding a table of contents

Adding the table of contents

Specifying headers and number sectioning

Adding table of contents options

Creating a report with a parameter

Adding a parameter to the report

Creating a new report using a parameter

Multiple parameters

Adding multiple parameters to the report

Creating a new report using multiple parameters

Customizing the report

Customizing the report style

Customizing the header and table of contents

Customizing the title, author, and date

Referencing the CSS file

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Andre

about 5 hours

Really useful and detailed explanation of R markdown, would 100% recommend to someone who is new to this area of R

Mailton

1 day

Inspirational introductory course to show all potential to simplify reporting using R Markdown.

Carlos Alberto

3 days

Very well designed course, you learn by doing exercises that reinforce how to make very good reports with markdown.

Thomas

5 days

Karla Michelle

6 days

Michael

2 days

I found the course interesting but quite repetitive not sure how much I will use it in the work I will do.

"Really useful and detailed explanation of R markdown, would 100% recommend to someone who is new to this area of R"

Andre

"Inspirational introductory course to show all potential to simplify reporting using R Markdown."

Mailton

"Very well designed course, you learn by doing exercises that reinforce how to make very good reports with markdown."

Carlos Alberto

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