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<p>Anything that is not inside a code chunk or inline code is interpreted by
RMarkdown as text. There are many different formatting styles that you can
achieve with RMarkdown syntax. You can use <em>italics</em> by wrapping text in
asterisks, <strong>bold</strong> with double asterisks, and <del>strikethrough</del> with double
tilde. You can add block quotes using a &gt; at the beginning of a line:</p>
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