This tutorial is minimal. It’s probably considerably less than minimal. But there are lots of great tutorials and other resources for learning to use knitr, markdown, and asciidoc, and I’m not even trying to cover latex properly. Here are some examples.

Also consider Quarto; many people have switched from R Markdown to Quarto.

knitr

• The knitr web site
• knitr demos
• knitr showcase: Examples from users
• R Markdown: The Definitive Guide (book)
• Dynamic Documents with R and knitr (book)
• Getting started with R Markdown and Knitr
• knitr graphics manual
• knitrBootstrap for nice-looking reports (see L. Collado-Torres’s post)
• RMarkdown Troubleshooting

Markdown

• Markdown main page
• Markdown tutorial
• Markdown cheatsheet

R Markdown

• R Markdown main page
• Tips for images and figures in R Markdown

AsciiDoc

• AsciiDoc main page
• AsciiDoc cheat sheet
• AsciiDoc user guide
• AsciiDoc writers’ guide
• ascii package for R

LaTeX

• LaTeX project page
• LyX, a graphical front-end for LaTeX
• Using knitr with LyX

Related things

• xtable, an R package for creating LaTeX and html tables
• pandoc, for converting among markup formats, including markdown to PDF
• pander, an R package with helper functions for creating pandoc’s markdown format
• Reproducible Research with R and RStudio (book)
• polymode, an emacs mode that handles R Markdown nicely

Karl’s examples

• Directory of examples
• R Markdown example, and its html product
• AsciiDoc example, and Its html product
• LaTeX example, and its pdf product
• Markdown example, and its html product
• GNU Make file for the above