Help me out #rstats hive mind. I've been asked to explain the benefits of RMarkdown. I'm developing a list on a continuum from simple (i.e. do what you currently do, just better) to complex (i.e. completely transform how you work). Here 'tis:

I love using RMarkdown to document analyses, but if there's a downside it's that I find it a bit harder to use than a plain R script if you're on a Linux server (though if there are easy ways to use RMarkdown from Linux, I'd love to learn)

What's so hard? I use Rmarkdown on Ubuntu every day. I can't imagine a better way to work.

Writing little bash scripts (e.g. to run knitr with various options) goes a long, long way. Next I want to learn how to write a script that creates .md files from .Rmarkdown files for blogdown without running RStudio.

Rscript -e "blogdown::hugo_build()" will build the site including generating all .md from .Rmd files. Rscript -e "blogdown::serve_site()" will serve the site to a local browser. I have these in a Makefile.

You might find littler helpful, from @eddelbuettel. Lots of small scripts for doing R related things from the cmd line. dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/l…