Parse and render markdown text
Converts markdown text to several formats using John MacFarlane's cmark
reference implementation. Supported output formats include html, latex, groff man, and normalized
"commonmark" markdown. In addition the markdown parse tree can be returned in xml format.
markdown_html(text, hardbreaks = FALSE, smart = FALSE, normalize = FALSE, sourcepos = FALSE, extensions = FALSE) markdown_xml(text, hardbreaks = FALSE, smart = FALSE, normalize = FALSE, sourcepos = FALSE, extensions = FALSE) markdown_man(text, hardbreaks = FALSE, smart = FALSE, normalize = FALSE, width = 0, extensions = FALSE) markdown_commonmark(text, hardbreaks = FALSE, smart = FALSE, normalize = FALSE, width = 0, extensions = FALSE) markdown_text(text, hardbreaks = FALSE, smart = FALSE, normalize = FALSE, width = 0, extensions = FALSE) markdown_latex(text, hardbreaks = FALSE, smart = FALSE, normalize = FALSE, width = 0, extensions = FALSE)
text |
Markdown text |
hardbreaks |
Treat newlines as hard line breaks. If this option is specified, hard wrapping is disabled
regardless of the value given with |
smart |
Use smart punctuation. See details. |
normalize |
Consolidate adjacent text nodes. |
sourcepos |
Include source position attribute in output. |
extensions |
Enables Github extensions. Can be |
width |
Specify wrap width (default 0 = nowrap). |
Support for extensions (including tables and autolink) is provided via the Github
fork of cmark. For now these are opt-in and have to be
enabled with the extensions parameter. See also the manual page on extensions.
When smart punctuation is enabled, straight double and single quotes will be rendered as curly quotes,
depending on their position. Moreover -- will be rendered as – (en-dash), --- will be
rendered as — (em-dash), and ... will be rendered as ... (ellipses).
md <- readLines("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yihui/knitr/master/NEWS.md")
html <- markdown_html(md)
xml <- markdown_xml(md)
man <- markdown_man(md)
tex <- markdown_latex(md)
cm <- markdown_commonmark(md)
text <- markdown_text(md)Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.