Setup R & R Markdown

Table of contents

1. Installation
   1. Install R Markdown
2. Set Up in VS Code
   1. R Extensions
   2. Useful User Settings
3. Tidyverse

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Installation

With homebrew:

brew install r
brew install pandoc

pandoc is required to render R Markdown.

Install R Markdown

Open R in terminal:

> R

Capital R.

Install rmarkdown package:

install.packages("rmarkdown")

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Set Up in VS Code

For more details, refer to this document.

R Extensions

Install extensions in VS Code.

Extension IDs:

REditorSupport.r
ms-vscode.live-server

ms-vscode.live-server is to enable live preview of R Markdown.

Useful User Settings

...
"[r]": {
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "REditorSupport.r",
  "editor.formatOnSave": true
},
"[rmd]": {
  "editor.defaultFormatter": "REditorSupport.r",
  "editor.formatOnSave": true
},
"r.rmarkdown.preview.autoRefresh": true,
...

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Tidyverse

brew install harfbuzz fribidi  # Needed for textshaping package
R
> install.packages("tidyverse")