Writing and styling PDF documents with RStudio
Even in the era of the Internet, PDF documents are a really convenient way to share your results.
That is probably why RStudio provides you with an easy way to create PDF documents from your R Markdown documents.
Getting ready
To produce PDF documents from our device, we first need to install the latest distribution of a convenient LaTeX engine.
On Apple devices, we suggest downloading the latest Mactex version from http://tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html, while Windows users can download Miktext from http://miktex.org/download.
Linux users can use Texlive, which can be found at https://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html.
How to do it...
Create a new R Markdown document, specifying PDF as output:
Render your PDF document.
Rendering your PDF document simply involves hitting the Knit PDF button:
There’s more...
In the R Markdown framework, PDF is just one of the possible output formats. All possible customizations available within the R Markdown format...
