This is a post written in plain Markdown (*.md) instead of R Markdown (*.Rmd). The major differences are:
- You cannot run any R code in a plain Markdown document, whereas in an R Markdown document, you can embed R code chunks (
```{r}); - 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:
- Write an R package.
- Write a book.
- …
- Profit!
Similarly, Blackfriday does not support LaTeX math and Pandoc does. I have added the MathJax support to this theme (hugo-lithium-theme) but there is a caveat for plain Markdown posts: you have to include inline math expressions in a pair of escaped parentheses \ ( \) instead of dollar signs $ $, e.g. \(S_n = \sum_{i=1}^n X_i\). For R Markdown posts, you can use $ $ to write inline math expressions.
When creating a new post, you have to decide whether the post format is Markdown or R Markdown, and this can be done via the rmd argument of the function blogdown::new_post(), e.g.
blogdown::new_post("Post Title", rmd = FALSE)