Welcome to week two. I hope you now feel comfortable working in the RStudio environment, using the R language, along with managing your projects using Git version control linked to a GitHub repository. This week, we'll further explore the RStudio environment. You'll learn about markdown, specifically the R Markdown syntax, to format text and change layouts in formatting to make documents, reports, and presentations. You'll learn how to create these documents from scratch as well as how to customize your documents. You'll also learn how these tools can be used to create a simple book. Part of the layout, formatting and style of each document is established within the first few lines of code, written at the top of an R Markdown document. This information is contained inside a header, written in something called YAML, which stands for Yet Another Markup Language. Simply stated, it's the instructions containing the options that tell the computer what format that you want your final document to have, what the title of your document is, and other options that can be changed. You'll learn how to create the YAML header and modify it to customize your final reports and documents. We'll also explore creating and inserting objects such as math equations, tables, images, and even video within your documents. You'll explore creating both typical documents, as well as slide show presentations. Other demonstrations will be shown using these tools for creating websites, blogs, and books. This week completes with another practice quiz and your first graded assignment.