Metadata can be included in the yaml header of an RMarkdown document. The yaml can store metadata in the params parameter or as individual yaml parameters. For example, the RMarkdown file below adds some metadata parameters to the header: short_title, reference and meta_list. The rmarkdown function rmarkdown::metadata …

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Quarto is the new publishing system from RStudio based on Pandoc. It's a powerful tool for publising from R, Python and Julia, working in a very similar fashion to RMarkdown. There are several great blog posts already highlighting features of Quarto and thoughts on changing from RMarkdown to Quarto. Recently, I've been …

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Using RMarkdown with knitr is a great way of automating reports under R and I've used this approach extensively in shiny apps. For one particular project we're storing raw data in a SQL database and processing on the fly under shiny. Results are displayed using heatmaps and graphs. We're now considering pushing data …

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