parameterized reports using RMarkdown

Question

Hi, how to add parameters to Rmarkdown script to change the dataset and fields to .Rmd file as per user choice?

Answer 1

Add params attribute like below specifying dataset options.

Ex:

---
title: "Rmarkdown Parameters"
output: html_document
params:
  data: mpg
  year: 2017
---

See the below manual for more information on parameterized reports.

https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/params-knit.html