RPubs is the logical end of the path that starts with an R script:
- Development of R code
- Development of an R Markdown report embedding the R code
- Publishing and sharing your R Markdown report online
One of the greatest advantages of RPubs is its good integration with the RStudio environment.
We will see how to publish your analyses on RPubs from the ground up.
In order to publish your work on RPubs, you will first have to create an account on this portal.
To sign up on RPubs, you just have to navigate to http://rpubs.com/users/new.
The signing-up procedure will ask you to fill in some fields.
After filling in the required fields, you will get an account on the platform, and you will be ready to publish your first report on RPubs.
In this recipe, we will publish one of the reports produced in our previous recipes, and specifically the parametrized reports produced in the Generating dynamic parametrized reports with R Markdown recipe in this chapter.
You should have noticed that every published document comes with a Comments button, which lets you see whether someone has commented on your work. This feature, based on the Disqus platform, is particularly useful when your publication is aimed at stimulating exchanges of opinion around a topic linked to your work.