R markdown lab
- Try compiling this document using the “Knit HTML” button. What files are produced?
- Edit the output to be “word_document” and recompile. What files are produced?
- Try running the chunk below by pressing the green play button on the far right. What happens?
x = seq(from = 1, to = 20, by = .5)
x## [1] 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0
## [16] 8.5 9.0 9.5 10.0 10.5 11.0 11.5 12.0 12.5 13.0 13.5 14.0 14.5 15.0 15.5
## [31] 16.0 16.5 17.0 17.5 18.0 18.5 19.0 19.5 20.0plot(x)
This is a primary header. Add a secondary header with ## on the line below and recompile.
- Try pressing the run previous chunk button - the button that is to the left of the play button. What happens?
x = rnorm(100)
plot(x)
- Add a chunk option of fig.width = 10 to this plot, see what happens when you knit.
x = rnorm(10)
y = rnorm(10)
plot(x,y)
- Add a chunk option of echo=FALSE and see what happens when you knit.
Check out the docs at: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/ and look under formats.
Check out the output of this inline code when you knit the document: 60
Install the
devtools packageby copy pasting install.packages(“devtools”) into your console. Then load the package usinglibray(devtools)and the commandsession_info()in this chunk and look at the output.
#install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)## Loading required package: usethissession_info()## ─ Session info ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
## setting value
## version R version 4.6.0 (2026-04-24)
## os macOS Sonoma 14.4.1
## system aarch64, darwin23
## ui X11
## language (EN)
## collate en_US.UTF-8
## ctype en_US.UTF-8
## tz America/New_York
## date 2026-07-20
## pandoc 2.11 @ /Users/avahoffman/opt/anaconda3/bin/ (via rmarkdown)
## quarto 1.8.25 @ /usr/local/bin/quarto
##
## ─ Packages ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
## package * version date (UTC) lib source
## bslib 0.11.0 2026-05-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## cachem 1.1.0 2024-05-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## cli 3.6.6 2026-04-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## devtools * 2.5.2 2026-04-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## digest 0.6.39 2025-11-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## ellipsis 0.3.3 2026-04-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## evaluate 1.0.5 2025-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## fastmap 1.2.0 2024-05-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## fs 2.1.0 2026-04-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## glue 1.8.1 2026-04-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## here 1.0.2 2025-09-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## htmltools 0.5.9 2025-12-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## jquerylib 0.1.4 2021-04-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## jsonlite 2.0.0 2025-03-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## knitr 1.51 2025-12-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## lifecycle 1.0.5 2026-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## magrittr 2.0.5 2026-04-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## memoise 2.0.1 2021-11-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## otel 0.2.0 2025-08-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## pkgbuild 1.4.8 2025-05-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## pkgload 1.5.2 2026-04-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## purrr 1.2.2 2026-04-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## R6 2.6.1 2025-02-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## rlang 1.2.0 2026-04-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## rmarkdown 2.31 2026-03-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## rprojroot 2.1.1 2025-08-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## sass 0.4.10 2025-04-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## sessioninfo 1.2.4 2026-06-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## usethis * 3.2.1 2025-09-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## vctrs 0.7.3 2026-04-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## xfun 0.58 2026-06-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
## yaml 2.3.12 2025-12-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.6.0)
##
## [1] /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.6/Resources/library
## * ── Packages attached to the search path.
##
## ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────