how with the help of bayes rule we can conclude this?

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I can't understand how the author used Bayes rule to conclude this equation:

\begin{equation*} \begin{aligned} P(R=1 | Q,D)& = P(D | R = 1, Q)P(R=1|Q)/P(D|Q) \end{aligned} \end{equation*}

this equation taken from book introduction to information retrieval page 227

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This is straight forward. Everything is conditioned on $Q$. Forget $Q$ for a second and apply Bayes rule.

Bayes rule says that $$ p(R | D) = \frac{p(D|R) p(R)}{p(D)} $$

This still holds if you have one more random variable $Q$ that you condition on. In that case $$ p(R | D, Q) = \frac{p(D|R, Q) p(R| Q)}{p(D|Q)} $$