Nearly all Markdown applications support the basic syntax outlined in John Grubers original design document. One thing that may be annoying is the way R Markdown handles floats like tables and figures. There are minor variations and discrepancies between Markdown processors those are noted inline wherever possible.
The option --frommarkdown tells that input file is a Markdown file.
It is nota comprehensive reference. Youll need to install LaTeX and the best way to do that is to install the tinytex package this is an easier and much smaller installation than the full LaTeX installation which is about 5 Gigabytes. If the data changes the author must repeat the entire process to update the graph. Chapter 2 rmarkdown an introduction to statistical programming methods with r markdown template for academic mcripts steven v miller researchers producing subscripts in reproducible reports 3 notebook the definitive guide research and authoring knitr reproducibility literate.