How Rmarkdown changed my life
summary
Rmarkdown becomes the single authoring system for websites, blogs, textbooks, papers, slides, CVs, theses, memos, letters, exams and client reports, replacing ad hoc workflows of R + LaTeX + makefiles. Uses knitr, blogdown (Hugo), bookdown and custom Monash EBS templates to generate PDF/HTML/Beamer outputs, all stored in git for reproducibility. Migration of a tennis‑club site reports 30–40× faster page builds; LaTeX expertise remains needed for custom PDF templates and makefile skills diminish.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:34Let's go back in time
- 1:00Wordstar 2000
- 1:19WordPerfect
- 1:50TeX/LaTeX
- 4:07Makefiles
- 5:53Rmarkdown templates
- 8:00Evolution of a website
- 11:33My first book (1998)
- 12:34Online publishing
- 13:35Making slides
- 14:37Curriculum vitae
- 15:13Theses
- 15:45Memos
- 16:20Letters
- 17:13Exams
- 17:51Conclusions
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