Hi everyone, welcome to my second blog post on R. Today, I will discuss some cool things I learned aboutrmarkdown. I believe that you are aware what amazing things rmarkdown can do that range from creating html posts, pdfs, word docs and LATEX docs. You can learn more about rmarkdown HERE. In fact, I wrote this post on rmarkdown within RStudio.

But in this post, I am going to list a couple of cool stuff in order to spice up your document with colorful text blocks, alert texts, emojis 😄 and notes in addition to the usual commands such as headings, italics, bold etc.

Anyway, let’s take a look at the most common formatting options.

Headings

Just put # space text !

Heading 1 (# Heading 1)

Heading 2 (## Heading 2)

Heading 3 (### Heading 3)

Heading 4 (#### Heading 4)

and so on…….

Italics

This text is italic (Put * before and after the text that you want italicised)

Bold

This text is bold (Put ** before and after the text you want bold)

Strikethrough

(Just put the two tildes ~~ before and after the text that you want strikethroughed - not sure if this is a word, anyway)

Now the exciting stuff:

Blockquote ( Use > at the start of the sentence)

Blockquotes can be used to remind readers about the key points in the post.

Highlight

Follow this official academic theme document from George Cushen here to learn about highlighting a sentence or quote which looks like this quote right here.

Note

Note as below can be inserted by three dashes (- - -) on the first line NOTE text surrounded by ** and again three dashes (- - -). There must be blank line below the text NOTE.

NOTE

It works with almost all markdown flavours (the below blank line matters).

Warning alerts like below

Go here to see how to do this.

Alert Note like below

Again follow this link to learn about this trick.

Emojis

Markdown supports a lot of Emojis such as ❤ , 💓 , 👀 , 🐈 , 🐼 and much more.

For a complete list of emojis that rmarkdown supports please follow the link HERE.

Good luck working with rmarkdown. All the best.

My apologies, I was unable to insert html code chunks without executing in this document to demonstrate the exact code that leads to these formatting options. I hope to learn that soon. In the meantime go to George Cushen’s website and learn more fun and interesting stuff.

See you in another blog post.