Formatting with Markdown

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Timo Grossenbacher

Data Journalist

Markdown

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber, with the goal of of enabling people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid HTML".

¹ Daringfireball.net (https://web.archive.org/web/20040402182332/http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)

Markdown

# A short text

## Introduction

Hello, *my name* is 
**Timo Grossenbacher** and I 
work at 
[SRF Data](https://srf.ch/data).

A short text

Introduction

Hello, my name is Timo Grossenbacher and I work at SRF Data.

<h1>A short text</h1>

<h2>Introduction</h2>

Hello, <em>my name</em> is 
<strong>Timo Grossenbacher</strong>
and I work at 
<a href = "https://srf.ch/data">
SRF Data</a>.

Pandoc Markdown

RMarkdown = Markdown prose + R code

For all formatting options see the Pandoc Markdown Reference

Let's put this into practice!

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