[R-pkg-devel] Rmarkdown fails if (quote) r (space) is used

[Jeff Newmiller]

A code chunk does always begin with a triple backtick at the beginning of a line. The term for what you encountered is "inline code" used to embed computed results into the markdown text as though you had typed them directly.

Check out https://www.r-bloggers.com/2017/12/how-to-show-r-inline-code-blocks-in-r-markdown for relevant discussion.

On November 3, 2023 7:54:22 AM PDT, J C Nash <profjcnash using gmail.com> wrote:
>I've spent a couple of hours with an Rmarkdown document where I
>was describing some spherical coordinates made up of a radius r and
>some angles. I wanted to fix the radius at 1.
>
>In my Rmarkdown text I wrote
>
>   Thus we have `r = 1` ...
>
>This caused failure to render with "unexpected =". I was using Rstudio
>at first and didn't see the error msg.
>
>If I use "radius R" and `R = 1`, things are fine, or `r=1` with no space,
>but the particular "(quote) r (space)" seems to trigger code block processing.
>
>Perhaps this note can save others some wasted time.
>
>I had thought (obviously incorrectly) that one needed ```{r something}
>to start the code chunk.
>
>JN
>
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