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The holy grails of information

Courtesy of https://gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes/:

Options that need to be set:

options(servr.daemon = TRUE, blogdown.author = "Barbara")

Some info right off the bat (for free!!)

This is a post written in plain Markdown (*.md) instead of R Markdown (*.Rmd). The major differences are:

  1. You cannot run any R code in a plain Markdown document, whereas in an R Markdown document, you can embed R code chunks (```{r});
  2. A plain Markdown post is rendered through Blackfriday, and an R Markdown document is compiled by rmarkdown and Pandoc.

There are many differences in syntax between Blackfriday’s Markdown and Pandoc’s Markdown. For example, you can write a task list with Blackfriday but not with Pandoc: