Background

This past week you saw various ways to format .pdf documents using R Markdown and some simple LaTeX commands. Your assignment is to create a report based upon the template here that includes all of the attributes below. When you save and open the template, you will see that the YAML section is missing. You will have to add one and modify it accordingly to match the criteria below.

Title page

  • Title: “My Report for Assignment 6”
  • Author: your first and last names
  • Date: dynamically assigned when knitted using a format of month_name day, four_digit_year

Content

  • All sections and text in the template document
  • Table of contents that includes the 3 levels of headings in the template document

Layout

General

  • 1.5” margins on the top and bottom
  • 1” on the left and right side
  • 11-point type (the default font is OK)
  • 1.5 line spacing

Equations

You will need to insert 3 equations into the template document at the locations indicated by the blocks. When formatted, the equations should appear as follows (paying attention to text appearing as regular versus italic type):

Eqn 1 (single line)

Eqns 2 & 3 (two lines)

Eqn 4 (single line)

References

You will need to insert 2 citations into the Discussion section at the locations indicated on the template, and create a list of automatically formatted references in the References section. You should use the style template for the journal Ecology.

Submission

You should create a new GitHub repo called Assignment-6 that includes both your .Rmd source file and the resulting .pdf. When you are finished,

  1. invite Mark as a collaborator to your repo;

  2. create a new issue that briefly describes what you’ve done; and

  3. tag Mark in the issue so he can check out your work.