plain text.

(where formatting is indicated but not immediately shown/rendered).

For example, this in Markdown:

# Section

*my text*

Becomes this when rendered:

Section

my text

This is very powerful because plain text (“Markdown”) can become:

• PDF
• Word
• HTML (which can be interactive)
• presentation

with a push of a button.

This is very powerful because plain text (“Markdown”) can become:

• PDF
• Word
• HTML (which can be interactive)
• presentation

with a push of a button. + make it even more powerful by adding R

---
title: "Example knitr/R Markdown document"
author: "Your name"
date: "22/5/2020"
output:
word_document: default
---

• a single Enter/new line does not render to a line break
• 2+ empty lines always renders to a single empty line
• learn to love backticks and curly braces: ``` {}

• If you execute code chunks separately, objects appear and use the current Environment
• If you knit the whole .Rmd file, it starts fresh, and does not see other things you might have loaded

Knit document

Open the Document Options (“document cog”):

For example, for adding automated numbering:

Change chunk options (“chunk cog”):

In addition to changing the figure size, this is where we control whether we want code/messages/errors to be included in the final document, or just results.

It’s the exact same file format. The difference is how YOU work with it.

Available at: github.com/riinuots/markdown

• documents
• presentations
• websites (blogdown)
• Shiny apps (runtime: shiny)
• books (bookdown)