Converting a Word docx file to a draft R Markdown file
Autar Kaw
Many of have been using MS Word as a word processor for decades now. What is then an R Markdown document? An R Markdown document is written in markdown (fancy way of saying that it is all in plain text) and embedded in it can be chunks of R code. Once written, you can render the file into many formats including HTML, MS Word and PDF. So, why would someone like me choose to convert a MS Word file to a R Markdown file. Isn’t MS Word enough to meet my needs? I have two good reasons to convert my...