Background The purpose of this tutorial is to walk through using d3.js within an Rmd document that is then rendered as an HTML page with a Hugo static site generator. That was probably the most technical sentence of this entire write-up, so let’s all breath a sigh of relief now that we’re through with it. This is a quick release, so I’m not going to go into much detail about the process to get the data and what it fully represents just yet - I’m saving that for a deeper post with a “tbd” release date at this point.

Tutorial’s purpose Manipulating data and building visuals is the bread and butter of the R language - but what can get lost in the fold is the ability to easily and quickly push analysis out for folks to see. Using knitr and rmarkdown makes that significantly easier, and exists at the press of a button. In this tutorial, we’re going to press those buttons. What are the packages? There are a ton of ways to get information from R out into the world - ranging from static Word or PDF documents all the way to interactive web applications.