Question

Having this code in a test.md file

       $$
       \begin{aligned}
       20x 1  \leqt 70

       \end{aligned}
        $$

When I use RStudio button Preview Html the equation is well formatted using Mathjax.
But when I try to do it using markdownToHTML function:
for example

      markdownToHTML('test.md', 'test.html'), 

the equation is not formatted.

The bug is due to the extra blank line after my equation( I can’t remove it because the equation is generated using an R chunk and the cat command)

Does Rstudio does any post-processing on .md files to remove blank lines between $$ ?

Answer 1

For RStudio, we actually have our own version of the markdown package embedded which does the conversion from .md to .html. I tried your scenario and was able to reproduce as well. I recommend reporting this to Jeff Horner to see if there is a bug here that he can fix:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/markdown/index.html

https://github.com/rstudio/markdown

Josh

Product Manager – RStudio