Markdown

Markdown is a plain text formatting language that is designed to create html documents using special characters and indentation to specify the desired format while remaining easy to read in its raw format. Thanks to the magic of Pandoc Markdown can also be used to create PDF, MS Word, and other styles of documents.

There are many “flavors” of markdown. Let’s look at a quick tutorial on Github flavored markdown.

Rmarkdown

This document was written in Rmarkdown using RStudio. You can see the source at Stats506_F18.

You will use Rmarkdown for all assignments in the course. To begin, you should familarize yourself with the basic formatting options specified under “Examples” at the page we viewed earlier. A homework template is available at Stats506_F18.

Reading

Please read: R for Data Science, Chapter 24

You may also find Michael Clark’s “Rmarkdown” document useful.