In parsermd: Formal Parser and Related Tools for R Markdown Documents

Note: please ignore this example if the version of your formatR package is greater than 1.3.2, because line breaks will be automatically preserved.

This demos shows you how to replace \n to a real line break in the source.

This is what you normally see in the output:

x = 'this is a long long
string with several
lines'

Modify the source hook:

library(knitr)
knit_hooks$set(source = function(x, options) {
  paste0('\n\n```r\n', gsub('\\n', '\n', x, fixed=TRUE), '\n```\n\n')
})

Now we test the source hook:

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