Teaching R Programming Using R Markdown Notebooks

In January I wrote about using Macdown to write in Markdown, a convention for writing in plain text while encoding the structure of your document—headers, block quotes, lists, footnotes, etc.—using simple typographic characters. If you’d like to learn more about the convention or what other Profs. Hacker are doing with it, we have a substantial archive of Markdown posts to browse. After writing that post, however, I realized there’s one other application I use to write in Markdown and one ot...