Use markdown for images (not R/knitr)

[jules32]

Hi @samanthacsik @stefaniebutland , I'm writing this here for us to implement going forward.

Here's an example of markdown (green) vs R (red) syntax for images:

I know Sam had good reasons for using R for images rather than markdown, but going forward let's use markdown. The reason is portability - we'll be cross-posting on the NASA-Openscapes blog post for now and not requiring R in post creation and GitHub Action is important (these websites otherwise don't rely on code, only quarto-flavored markdown).

See Openscapes/how_we_work#292 for screenshots and details.

This to me would mean using Markdown syntax going forward, and updating the wiki, but I wanted to get your thoughts?

[samanthacsik]

I agree with everything you've written here @jules32 ! That was an oversight on my part, but let's definitely move forward with the language-agnostic markdown syntax.

I made a first pass at updates to the wiki: https://github.com/Openscapes/website-new/wiki/Adding-images

I didn't fully remove the information on knitr::include_graphics() since it still appears throughout the website, but open to feedback

[jules32]

This sounds great, thank you Sam for updating the wiki!

[stefaniebutland]

@samanthacsik Just used your updated wiki info for images. Thank you!! (cause sometimes you never know if ppl read your documentation)