Markdown styling in R plots and tables

Of late I have felt very little interest in writing. There are reasons for this, most of which have to do with the rising tide of fascism that seems not to be of much concern to most people in the tech industry, but I personally find a little unsettling since I happen to belong to one of those inconvenient minority groups that fascists love to toss into camps. I am, understandably, preoccupied with that rather than sharing package releases and other things I used to care more about. In all honesty this post is no exception. I just happened to have most of it written months ago and wanted to close the PR. It’s not very interesting, and I don’t really care if you read it. Anyway, it’s about using markdown syntax in R plots and tables. Whatever. It’s 2026 and the world outside is on fire. Go ask Claude to write your own post if you care about such things. I’m finding it hard to do so anymore. library(tidyverse) library(commonmark) library(conflicted) library(flextable) library(ftExtra)…