A basic YAML header to start with. Choose the desired output format.

---
title: "RMarkdown Example"
author: "Mohammad Ali Nilforooshan"
date: "6 August 2017"
output: html_document
# output: pdf_document
# output: word_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

horizontal rule *** or ---

Formatting

Manual line break: End the line with two or more spaces.

italic *italic* and italic _italic_

bold **bold** and bold __bold__

superscript2 superscript^2^

subscript2 subscript~2~

strikethrough ~~strikethrough~~

link [link](http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com)

http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com <http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com>

Header 1 # Header 1

Header 2 ## Header 2

Header 3 ### Header 1

block quote > block quote

endash: – --

emdash: — ---

ellipsis: … ...

Roses are red. <span style="color:red">Roses are red.</span>

Equations (LaTeX)

inline $equation$ inline $equation$

Display equation $$ equation $$ \(equation\)

Insert Image

image:

image: ![](https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/RStudio-Logo-Blue-Gray-125.png)

Inserting a resized and centered image in the document:

```
{r, out.width = "120px", echo=FALSE, fig.align='center'}
knitr::include_graphics("imsage.png")
```

Lists

  • unordered list
  • item 2
    • sub-item 1
    • sub-item 2
* unordered list  
* item 2  
    + sub-item 1  
    + sub-item 2
  1. ordered list
  2. item 2
    • sub-item 1
    • sub-item 2
1. ordered list
2. item 2
     + sub-item 1
     + sub-item 2

Tables

Table Header Second Header
Table Cell Cell2
Cell 3 Cell4 
Table Header  | Second Header
------------- | -------------
Table Cell    | Cell2
Cell 3        | Cell4

Codes

This plain code is written inline.

 This `plain code` is written inline. 
```
This is a plain code block.
```

Evaluate the code inline.

There were `r nrow(cars)` cars studied.

Show and evaluate the code.

```{r cars}
summary(cars)
```

Show the code, but do not evaluate it.

```{r eval=FALSE}
print("Don't run me")
```

Embed a plot.

```{r pressure, echo=FALSE}
plot(pressure)
```

Note that the echo = FALSE parameter was added to the code chunk to prevent printing of the R code that generated the plot.

display options

option default effect
eval TRUE Whether to evaluate the code and include its results
echo TRUE Whether to display code along with its results
warning TRUE Whether to display warnings
error FALSE Whether to display errors
message TRUE Whether to display messages
tidy FALSE Whether to reformat code in a tidy way when displaying it
results “markup” “markup”, “asis”, “hold”, or “hide”
cache FALSE Whether to cache results for future renders
comment ”##” Comment character to preface results with
fig.width 7 Width in inches for plots created in chunk
fig.height 7 Height in inches for plots created in chunk

For more details visit http://yihui.name/knitr/

Centred text - PDF output only

\begin{center}
centred text
\end{center}

\newline

\hfill

Table of contents

---
title: "Sample Document"
output:
  html_document:
    toc: true
    theme: united
---

It can be custmized further, such as toc_depth.

If you want to have the table of contents in a new page, drop toc and use some latex language.

---
title: "Title"
author: "Name"
output: pdf_document
---

\newpage # adds new page after title
\tableofcontents # adds table of contents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\newpage