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What’s Markdown?

Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authorship of HTML, PDF, and MS Word 
documents. Your differential lies is the facility to read and write documents.

In summary, Markdown is:

  1. A simple text formatting syntax;
  2. A software tool, written in Perl1, that converts simples text formatting in HTML.

Typing “online markdown editor” in Google you can found several different websites that allow you, online, to create, edit, compile and save our Markdown file in different extentions (HTML, pdf) and making connections with Dropbox, GitHub, etc.

What’s R Markdown?

R Markdown is a markdown that recognize R code.

Inside a rmd file you can insert R code.

And where I do this?

A Markdown file has the extention .md, and can be created and edited in any programming language editor. The same with R Markdown (.rmd extention), if you are able to run R in this editor.

You can use the “pure” R, without any editor. You can use Emacs, Vim, Sublime, etc.

But, for rmd files the most friendly interface is RStudio.

  1. Perl is an programming language very used in UNIX systems administratives tasks, web development, finances, www form programming and bioinformatic, also having very efficient functions for text manipulation.↩