Programmatically insert text, headers and lists with R markdown

Question

When using R markdown if one wants to add text using code there are some simple ways to do it.

This is also true for tables, using the kable command is

Answer 1

Use the pander package, which transform R objects into Pandoc's markdown:

> headers=list("We","are","your","friends")
> list_a=list("We","are","your","friends")
> library(pander)
> pandoc.header(headers)

# We

# are

# your

# friends
> pander(list_a)


  * We
  * are
  * your
  * friends

The first example used a helper function to create the headers, while the second demo simply called the generic S3 method, that can robustly transform a variety of R objects into markdown.