In previous chapters you’ve accessed your data, cleaned it up, described its characteristics, modeled the relationships, and visualized the results. The next step is to
Research doesn’t end when the last statistical analysis or graph is finished. You’ll almost always have to communicate the results to others. This means incorporating the analyses into a report of some kind.
There are three common report scenarios. In the first, you create a report that includes your code and the results so you can remember what you did six months from now. It’s easier to reconstruct what was done from a single comprehensive document than from a set of related files.