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Creating first-class Markdown Notebooks in RStudio is a piece of cake
Effortless great-looking Markdown Notebooks with RStudio 1.4+
R Programming language is one of the main programming languages when it comes to statistical computing, Machine Learning and Data Science, and RStudio is by far the best IDE for working with R Programming Language. Unlike Python where you have dozens of options like Conda, Notebooks, command line, etc., for the folks who are keen to R, it’s pretty much settled that RStudio is the best tool.
One of the coolest things about working with RStudio is editing R Markdown notebooks, similar to what Jupyter Notebooks can give you, but integrated right on the IDE, with lots of parameters and the possibility of publishing, exporting to files, mixing code with text, graphics and other types of content. And while that was never super difficult, it left a lot to desire in terms of customization and usability, especially since R is a programming language used by a lot of people who don’t have an IT developer background.
That’s changed with the most recent version of RStudio. RStudio 1.4, though. This version is available for a few months now and it has brought some functionalities that will greatly help everyone editing R Markdown notebooks, and that’s something called Visual Markdown…
