Everything that is not code in your .Rmd is called narrative text, and can be styled with Markdown. Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax, which means everything you see in the file itself can be typed with a normal keyboard. Below is an example:

Add structure

You can use Markdown to organize your .Rmd file with headings. Headings are useful for organizing your document into sections, and with Markdown formatting you can have up to 6 types/sizes of headers. Use a hash symbol like # before the label to create a new header.

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Add formatting

All narrative text in your .Rmd file can be formatted to add bold, italics, bulletted lists, numbered lists, superscripts¹, and subscripts₁.

Insert elements

do side by side here

https://rstudio.github.io/visual-markdown-editing/#/

here add a bibliography, a static image, equation,

https://rmd4medicine.netlify.app/book/_book/add-text-with-markdown.html

this is markdown

What is Markdown?

• Markdown is a particular type of markup language.

• Markup languages are designed produce documents from plain text.

Visual Markdown Editor

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