You can make different levels of headings, using #
You can bold and make italics using asterisks on either side of the text. Use two asterisks for bold and 1 asterisk for italics.
No space after asterisks.
I want this to be bold I want this to be italicised
You can make bullet points with dashes. Put a space after the dash.
Get quotes using an arrow >
“There is no such thing as a silly question - Jenny Richmond”
You can insert links with a combination of round and square brackets
Put the text in square brackets, and the url that you want to link in round brackets.
You can find resources from our MarkdownThrowdown event at Jen’s github.
[find Rmd resources here] (https://github.com/jenrichmond/RMarkdownThrowdown)
Use similar notation to insert an image. When rendering to Pdf, I had to put in back ticks otherwise I get an error message!
Use: 
Use back ticks to enclose code if want code to appear in HTML output.
Use 
To embed gifs and tweets, choose “embed”
My favourite Tidyverse package is ggplot
NOTE: I have taken out the file name for the image/photo (IMG_ 20230818_120250 ed2.png) to stop R from running the HTML output with the photo to keep the size of the file small. If it runs the photo, the size goes from 612KB to 3.7MB!
For rendering to Pdf, I had to put the photo file back in otherwise the tinytex package won’t render. But, it seems to render when I put the back ticks in (see note above).
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On the other hand, there is no pb with rendering from markdown to HTML without the photo file name.
Log into X, use the embed option on the X website, copy the long url then paste it here.
Do the same for Gifs. See example below.
NOTE: the Gifs does not appear in Pdf, only in HTML
just typing R code - Hadley Wickham
The default is HTML. You can export to pdf or Word