A Plain Markdown Post

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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1. Markdown or R Markdown

This is a post written in plain Markdown (*.md) instead of R Markdown (*.Rmd). The major differences are:

You cannot run any R code in a plain Markdown document, whereas in an R Markdown document, you can embed R code chunks (```{r});
A plain Markdown post is rendered through Blackfriday, and an R Markdown document is compiled by rmarkdown and Pandoc.

There are many differences in syntax between Blackfriday’s Markdown and Pandoc’s Markdown. For example, you can write a task list with Blackfriday but not with Pandoc:

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A Plain Markdown Post

1. Markdown or R Markdown