process full-fledged Rmd about reprex HOT 5 CLOSED

SO does not support fenced code blocks, so you need to indent by 4 spaces, and you can use the output format rmarkdown::md_document.

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reprex does already do this, using md_document as @yihui points out. Request venue = "so", like so:

library(reprex)
so_md <- reprex({
  x <- 1:4
  y <- 2:5
  x + y
}, venue = "so")
writeLines(so_md)
#> <!-- language-all: lang-r -->
#> <br/>
#> 
#>     x <- 1:4
#>     y <- 2:5
#>     x + y
#>     #> [1] 3 5 7 9

Note the output you want (SO-ready markdown) should also be waiting on your clipboard after this little exercise.

I am tickled that I just used reprex to make a reprex, formatted for GitHub, demonstrating formatting of StackOverflow. META.

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But, @baptiste, back to your title. reprex takes R code as input, not Rmd. I think that's the right call, because these little snippets are going to be mostly R code. You can still include prose, by prefixing with #'. The examples and README show this. When I use it on GitHub, I often write the prose part of my comment normally, then paste the reprex result in.

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OK I will close for now, but keep this in mind.

I think if you've already psyched yourself up to write Rmd, a workflow helper like reprex isn't so relevant. Because you've already done most of the busy work that reprex handles anyway! The other 2 things it brings to the table then are:

• upload.fun defaulting to imgur upload, as @baptiste points out
• putting Markdown on the clipboard

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