Markdown Syntax

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Exercise: Markdown

Recreate the following paragraph in your Quarto document using Markdown:

Meet Quarto

Quarto enables you to weave together content and executable code into a finished document. 
To learn more about Quarto see https://quarto.org.

Meet the penguins

The `penguins` data from the palmerpenguins package contains size measurements for344 penguins from three species observed on three islands in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. 

The plot below shows the relationship between flipper and bill lengths of these penguins.

What It Should Look Like

Links you need

• You can find the illustration of the three species of Palmer Archipelago penguins (Chinstrap, Gentoo, and Adelie) here: https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/reference/figures/lter_penguins.png.
• The link to the Palmer Penguins package is here: https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/.

Exercise: Referencing

We’re assuming installation of Zotero Desktop, Zotero Connector, and Better BibTex for Zotero were completed successfully.

1. Open Zotero Desktop

• log into your account
• create a new collection for your project, for example: my-reproducible-manuscript

2. Open your Web Browser

• double-check that you can find the Zotero Connector in your browser
• run a web / Google Scholar search for “Allison Horst PalmerPenguins Package”
• use the Zotero Connector to save the reference to your collection

3. In Zotero Desktop,

• Right-click your collection and select Export Collection
• For the Format, select Better BibTex
• Click the option to Keep updated
• Provide the file name as references and save it in the same folder as your Quarto document

4. In RStudio,

• update the YAML to include the bibliography:

---
title: "My Reproducible Manuscript"
format: html
bibliography: references.bib
---

5. Insert a Citation

• In the text of your Quarto document, insert the PalmerPenguins citation (hint: refer to the slides and your .bib file to figure how to format the citation)

• Alternatively, when using the Visual Editor option - you can use the citation dialog/option to insert citations directly.

• Render the document

6. Repetition

• Repeat Step 2 with another reference
• Repeat Step 5 to insert the new reference
• if you did a bracketed citation before, do an in-text citation this time (or vice versa)

Note: Steps 1, 3, 4 can be skipped. These were a one-time thing.