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

[Serguei Sokol]

Le 03/11/2023 à 15:54, J C Nash a écrit :
> 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` ...
To avoid a confusion between inline code and fixed font typesetting, 
could it be

    Thus we have ` r = 1` ...

(with a space after an opening quote)?

Best,
Serguei.

> 
> 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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