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Re:R Markdown: The Definitive Guide by nojito on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:59PM (#26021311)
Find a business problem in your job that requires information to get into the hands of many people but require tweaks between them. i.e. person X needs to know A but person Y needs to know B.

Read up the section on parameterized reports and realize you can do the work of dozens .

https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/parameterized-reports.h...

rmarkdown is insanely effective at getting information out of your hands and into stakeholders repeatedly and in an visually appealing way. When you combine that with your domain knowledge, your value to your company will increase.

Re:R Markdown: The Definitive Guide by porker on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:58AM (#26023862)
> Read up the section on parameterized reports and realize you can do the work of dozens.

This was the killer (visual) feature in LyX when I used it to author LaTeX documents. Great to hear rmarkdown has similar support.

Re:R Markdown: The Definitive Guide by ellisv on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:15PM (#26021403)
It boggles my mind that in 2021 IPython/Jupyter notebooks _still_ don't have inline code evaluation or sensible parameterization without using extensions.