Since I am writing blog post that hosted by Github with Editor Atom and use plugin markdown-preview-plus and mathjax-wrapper and use mathjax Javascript display the math symbols on the web page. Heres some code r dimiris display options Use knitr options to style the output of a chunk. Since this is a statistics class you need to be able to write out mathematical expressions often long series of them.
Use rmarkdownrender to renderknit at cmd line.
Position your mouse cursor on New File on the menu a pop up menu will appear. You combine your R code with narration written in markdown an easy-to-write plain text format and then export the results as an html pdf or Word file. In this post I am gonna show you how to write Mathematic symbols in markdown. Both documents can be used as quick references after you become more familiar with R Markdown.