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<strong>knitting</strong>. The knitting consists of two steps that happen under the hood. First,
the R package <code>knitr</code> will take the <code>.Rmd</code> file, run the R code that is
contained in it, and convert it into an <code>.md</code> file. The <code>.md</code> file is then
passed on to Pandoc, which is a universal document converter. Pandoc will handle
the conversion to the final file format.</p>
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