R Markdown Review

Quoting the introduction on RStudio official site:

R Markdown is an authoring format that enables easy creation of dynamic documents, presentations, and reports from R. It combines the core syntax of markdown (an easy-to-write plain text format) with embedded R code chunks that are run so their output can be included in the final document. R Markdown documents are fully reproducible (they can be automatically regenerated whenever underlying R code or data changes).

When you use RMarkdown in R, you need to install this package manually. If you use RStudio, RMarkdown and knitr are pre-installed.
There is a knit button on top of the editor window which helps you to convert .Rmd file to specified format.

Frequent Used Syntax

Per below you could find some frequent used syntax:

• # for header - level 1, one more # leads to one level down
• * or number like 1, 2, etc. at the beginning of a sentence for creating a list, unordered or ordered.
• *<blabla>* for italic, **<blabla>** for bold, _<blabla>_ for underscores, <blabla> for strikethrough, ^<blabla>^ for superscript.
• A pair of `<your code>` for quoting a smaill piece of inline code, if you embed a piece of code in `r `, R Markdown will run the code in between automatically and replace it with the result.
• A string of 3 backticks following {r} to start a chunk of code indicating the chunk of code is programmed by R. To end this chunk, you just need to add another 3 backticks.

    ```{r}
    <your code>
    ```