All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents

If life gives you a bunch of Markdown files to analyse or edit, do you warm up your regex muscles and get going? How about using more specific tools instead? In this post, we shall give an overview of programmatic ways to parse and edit Markdown files: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, Hugo files, you name it. 🔗What is Markdown? Markdown is a (punny, eh) markup language created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz.