# R Markdown

R package that renders R Markdown documents, which combine code, its output and prose, into formats such as HTML, PDF and Word.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/rmarkdown/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com
- repository: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown
- docs: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/rmarkdown/articles/rmarkdown.html
- forum: https://forum.posit.co/c/quarto-r-markdown/10

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Posit Software, PBC
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2014
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: media, ssg
- hosting: r
- language: r
- runtime: r
- runtimeMin: r 3.0
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on, local
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: install.packages

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-07

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 3066
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 117
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/rmarkdown (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/rmarkdown (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/rmarkdown/reference/render_site.html (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://cran.r-project.org/package=rmarkdown (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://cran.r-project.org/package=rmarkdown (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://cran.r-project.org/package=rmarkdown (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://cran.r-project.org/package=rmarkdown (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/rmarkdown/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/rmarkdown/releases/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/rmarkdown/releases/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/rmarkdown (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/rstudio/rmarkdown/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/rmarkdown/reference/run.html (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

R Markdown is an R package that renders documents combining code, its output and prose. The package's homepage lists HTML, PDF, Word, slides, dashboards and websites among its output formats.

## Worth knowing

The README requires Pandoc outside RStudio, and RStudio includes it. The README describes the documents as analysis documents. A Shiny document needs a running Shiny server to be served, which the run function starts.

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