Several sites provide reasonable cheat sheets or HOWTOs for tables and images. Top on my list are: Pandoc readme, specifically tables RStudio’s RMarkdown, more details in basics (including tables) and a rewrite of pandoc’s markdown. Pictures are very simple to use but do not offer the ability to adjust the image to fit the page … Read more
August, 2018 update: This answer was written before the advent of bookdown, which is a more powerful approach to writing Rmarkdown based books. Check out the minimal bookdown example in @Mikey-Harper’s answer! When I want to break a large report into separate Rmd, I usually create a parent Rmd and include the chapters as children. … Read more
TOC: Full control over which chunks should be folded Fold all chunks that contain more than one line of code/output 1. Full control over which chunks should be folded I wanted to have the same functionality as well and did the following: I created a JavaScript that looks as follows: $(document).ready(function() { $chunks = $(‘.fold’); … Read more
This is a little bit tricky, but you just need to make the date field valid in YAML by quoting the inline R expression, e.g. date: “`r format(Sys.time(), ‘%d %B, %Y’)`” Then the parsing error will be gone, and the date will be generated in the markdown output so Pandoc can use the value from … Read more