Formatting with Markdown

Communicating with Data in the Tidyverse

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!

Communicating with Data in the Tidyverse