Render R Markdown to Markdown (without using knitr), and Markdown to lightweight HTML or LaTeX documents with the commonmark package (instead of Pandoc). Some missing Markdown features in commonmark are also supported, such as raw HTML or LaTeX blocks, LaTeX math, superscripts, subscripts, footnotes, element attributes, and appendices, but not all Pandoc Markdown features are (or will be) supported. With additional JavaScript and CSS, you can also create HTML slides and articles. This package can be viewed as a trimmed-down version of R Markdown and knitr. It does not aim at rich Markdown features or a large variety of output formats (the primary formats are HTML and LaTeX). Book and website projects of multiple input documents are also supported.