When making reports, why is it advantageous to use R Markdown than using R script?

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aLSO in the R studio interface, what information is shown in the Git tab section? does this mean the staging button, the commit, pushing, and pulling option or not?

Answer 1

Hello, so personally I use R Markdown as it can come with both code and text. I use LaTeX within R Markdown as well. R Markdown in general looks cleaner I think, and the formatting is nicer. I recommend you look up how to convert R Markdown to PDF (using tinytex or something similar), and start using built-in LaTeX (using two dollar signs for instance).

For the Git tab, you can save your packages (I think), R Markdown files and other files to an online Github repository. There, you can access your files from anywhere, and update them online.