How to convert R Markdown to PDF?

Question

I\'ve previously asked about the commands for converting R Markdown to HTML.

What is a good way to convert R Markdown files to PDF documents?

Answer 1

Only two steps:

1. Install the latest release "pandoc" from here:

   https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases

2. Call the function pandoc in the library(knitr)

   library(knitr)
   pandoc('input.md', format = 'latex')
   

Thus, you can convert your "input.md" into "input.pdf".