Knitting beautiful documents in RStudio

Title: Knitting Beautiful Documents in RStudio Header: Markdown This document was written using Markdown in RStudio. RStudio is a wonderful IDE for writing R scripts and keeping track of variables, dataframes, history, packages and much more. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring web pages. It allows for easy formatting, for example # Header…

High Resolution Figures in R

As I was recently preparing a manuscript for PLOS ONE, I realized the default resolution of R and RStudio images are insufficient for publication. PLOS ONE requires 300 ppi images in TIFF or EPS (encapsulated postscript) format. In R plots are exported at 72 ppi by default. I love RStudio but was disappointed to find…

New R IDE

I’m always looking for ways to improve my workflow and overall academic efficiency. I’ve tried a variety of text editors, GUIs, and integrated development environments (IDEs) for R. I have some preferences but I haven’t found anything that I’m completely happy with. I just heard about a new one from RStudio and am going to…