Workflow for R markdown creation?

[genec1]

When creating a new file, R markdown is not one of the available options.

What is the preferred workflow for creating an R markdown file? Choose New File > Text File, then save as "filename.Rmd"?

Are there template options in posit so that I can create a new Rmd with my default header and first code block? I would always edit the built-in Rmd template that is stored within the RStudio app after each RStudio update and would like the same type of functionality. Should I use a snippet for that? (On that note, none of "r","rlang","Rmd", or different case versions thereof as the scope of my custom snippet get it to come up in an R file. I had to leave scope empty for my snippet to work.)

[juliasilge]

What I will typically do to get an .Rmd is to create a new Quarto document and then save as .Rmd.

Alternatively, you can use functionality from the rmarkdown package itself, like:

rmarkdown::draft("tmp.Rmd", "github_document", "rmarkdown")

If you have a specific header and first code block you always want to use, you might consider making your own R Markdown template and then using rmarkdown::draft() with the path to that, as described at https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/docs/reference/draft.html

If you want to create a personal snippet to use in .Rmd in Positron, then you'll want to scope it to use the language "quarto", as Positron's support for .Rmd is powered by Quarto.