index.Rmd

--- 
title: "My Predissertation Paper"
author: "Tricia Marie McMillan"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
description: "This is a description of your predissertation paper."
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
output: bookdown::pdf_book
documentclass: memoir
classoption: [12pt, letterpaper, oneside, oldfontcommands]
bibliography: ['bib/book.bib', 'bib/packages.bib']
csl: "style/apa.csl"
---



<!-- We begin by checking to ensure that needed packages are installed and then we load them into our current working environment. -->

```{r load_pkgs, echo=FALSE, message=FALSE, warning=FALSE}
library(bookdown)
library(devtools)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)
```


```{r echo=FALSE}
# Set knitr options to print a blank instead of 'NA'
options(knitr.kable.NA = '')
library(kableExtra)
```



```{r load_data, echo=FALSE, message=FALSE}
# Load flights data
flights = readr::read_csv("data/flights.csv")
```