How to change the font color?

Question

In RMarkdown is there a way to specify the font color?

There doesn\'t seem to be an option while browsing through the chunk options

Answer 1

This seems to work very well in both output formats, pdf and html:

Roses are $\color{red}{\text{beautiful red}}$, 
violets are $\color{blue}{\text{lovely blue}}$.

Hope it helps.