Introduction to Rmarkdown Exercise

This repository holds materials for the first course assignment. We simply want you to introduce yourselves and your research interests to us, while at the same time learning how to write things using Rmarkdown and then knitting that document to different formats.

The file about-me.Rmd provides a skeleton to follow. You should just edit that file, modifying it to include your own information in it. There are certain goals in each section (like using numbered lists, or writing code in fenced code blocks) as listed in each section.

The file about-me-example.Rmd gives some information about Eric, and shows an example of what your response could look like. You can study it to learn about Rmarkdown syntax. We have included three different RMarkdown outputs of that file to see what they look like:

1. about-me-example.html
2. about-me-example.pdf
3. about-me-example.docx

To learn more about RMarkdown, as part of this assigment, you are also expected to download RStudio’s RMarkdown Cheat Sheet and study it carefully. If you are completely new to RMarkdown, some of it might be mysterious, but keep coming back to these sorts of RStudio cheat sheets. I learn something new every time I read them.

Try knitting your document to all three formats found in the YAML header (HTML, PDF, Word). Note that to get the PDF version done right, you probably have to add an image which is your original JPG, but converted to a PDF. (i.e. like images/eric.pdf). This can be done

Super Bonus Points: If you really want to impress us, try adding a few things that we have suggested in the template to your own document. You can find lots of things you might try in the RMarkdown cheat sheet. For example:

• Make a markdown table of something,
• Play with different text formatting,
• Try also rendering your document to a Slidy presentation. (But note that you may wish to rename the document so doing this does not overwrite your plain old about-me.html file.)

Turning in your assignment

Once you are done. Commit all your changes (feel free to make intermediate commits as well) and any new files, and push those back to GitHub. You should commit, at a minimum, about-me.Rmd and about-me.html, about-me.pdf, and about-me.docx.

That constitutes turning the assignment in.