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I know I can use $$ to write \LaTeX in Rmarkdown documents like $\beta$. My goal is if this is possible inside inline code.
I would do `$\beta$` or `$\\beta$`, but both do not work.
In case it is not possible, is there some way to generate a greek letter inside inline code in Rmarkdown?
Following https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26821326/how-can-i-write-special-characters-in-rmarkdown-latex-documents, I tried `β`.
But it also does not work. What can I do?
Thanks!
Try adding fig_caption: yes to the YAML header of your .Rmd file. It will look something like this:
---
title: "Untitled"
author: "Nicholas"
date: "20/09/2014"
output:
pdf_document:
fig_caption: yes
---
There's more information here: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/pdf_document_format.html
In ConTeXt, you can use the filter module for such tasks. In fact, the filter module is a generalization of ConTeXt MkII module m-r, which was designed for specifically what you are asking.
However, with the filter module it is easy to replicate the functionality for any language, so there is no MkIV version of m-r.
Here is a minimal example:
\usemodule[filter]
\defineexternalfilter
[R]
[
filtercommand={R CMD BATCH -q --save --restore \externalfilterinputfile\space \externalfilteroutputfile},
output=\externalfilterbasefile.out,
readcommand=\typefile,
read=no,
cache=yes,
]
\starttext
\startR
ushape <- c(rexp(500000), 12-rexp(500000))
pdf("ushape.pdf")
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
hist(ushape)
plot(density(ushape), main="Density")
dev.off()
\stopR
\startplacefigure[location=here, title={Output from R}]
\externalfigure[ushape.pdf][height=0.5\textheight]
\stopplacefigure
\stoptext
which gives
Note that the files are cahced, so subsequent runs are very quick.
Best Answer
Here I found that it depends on the type of area you are working in and potentially easier if your target is to show it in html rather than pdf so within a code chunk I got best success with
<code><mathml><mi>β</mi></mathml></code>Whereas outside a code chunk I found I had to simply use
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