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Module 2 | Lesson 3

Format text with Markdown

A Quarto document is made with a header, some text and some code.

It is easy to format the text using a markup language called markdown. Let's see how it works!

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What is Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that allows you to format text using simple, plain-text syntax.

๐Ÿคจ What the heck does markup language mean?


To put it simply, you can write in your quarto file something like:

I __love__ the `boxplot()` function of R, *so much*!

And you will get this result in your report:

I love the boxplot() function of R, so much!


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