16 Lab Reports

Guidelines for writing your lab reports as RMarkdown documents rendered into GitHub Flavored Markdown documents.

16.1 YAML header

This is a basic template for the YAML header for a lab report.

---
title: "Title"
author: "Author"
date: now
format: gfm
editor: visual
---

16.1.1 Some common mistakes

• The title and author must be quoted (surrounded by double quotes)
• The keys (title, author, date, format, editor, etc) must be lower case
• The values (now, gfm, visual, etc) must be lower case