Computation inside markdown text: is there some documentation?

[aborruso]

Hi,
in this good presentation of R-Ladies, Julia Muller uses a qmd file and this markdown text:

The average bill length is `r mean(penguins$bill_length_mm)` mm and the average bill depth is `r mean(penguins$bill_depth_mm)` mm.

The computation takes place within the markdown text and not inside a code block.

I have two (probably) stupid question:

• where do I find some notes about this, inside quarto documentation?
• could I do the same for all quarto usable kernels (python, julia, ecc.)?

Thank you

[cscheid]

That's a knitr feature. We don't advertise it broadly in quarto because Jupyter doesn't have a corresponding feature.

The recommended workaround is to use Display(Markdown()) in Jupyter.

[aborruso]

For an app as Quarto, in my opinion, it would be great to have a general way to mix markdown and inline code.

[cscheid]

Display(Markdown()) is general, though I agree it's not ergonomic. What we don't want to do is come up with a solution that doesn't play well with our Jupyter compatibility requirements. We need to be able to import and export from and to .ipynb, and inline execution in plain markdown doesn't currently play nicely with that.

[aborruso]

thank you @cscheid