FAQ Discussion: How to format your code

[jcblum]

This topic is for discussing questions, suggestions, and other feedback about the following FAQ:

FAQ: How to format your code

Formatting Code: the Basics All code or console output you include in your posts should be formatted properly. Luckily, this is very easy to do! Just use the code formatting button at the top of the post editing box: [image] Select some code Click the </> button! The code formatting button automatically adds special Markdown formatting symbols to whatever you selected. If you check the preview pane to the right of your post, you'll see that the forum software now outputs nicely formatted code . [04] The code formatting button is pretty smart! It can tell the difference between snippets of code that are part of a sentence and blocks of code that stand alone. S…

[stephhazlitt]

How do you insert a quote from the thread above (or elsewhere) that appears as a nicely formatted indented box in a reply?

[mara]

If you highlight the content and click quote it will automatically populate the reply with the formatted code:

[quote="stephhazlitt, post:5, topic:6246, full:true"]
How do you insert a quote from the thread above (or elsewhere) that appears as a nicely formatted indented box in a reply?
[/quote]

You can also select text and click the quote button (highlighted below):

Using > also works:

This is a quote.

from ⇩

> This is a quote.

[jcblum]

R Markdown Source

Use four backticks and the "markdown" syntax hint to surround the source of R Markdown documents:

Type this:

````markdown
---
title: "It's full of cars!"
output: html_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

## R Markdown

This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents.

```{r cars}
summary(cars)
```
````

See this:

---
title: "It's full of cars!"
output: html_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

## R Markdown

This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents. 

```{r cars}
summary(cars)
```