How to display verbatim inline r code with backticks using Rmarkdown?

Question

By doubling the backticks in Markdown, it is easy to render some text in code style including the backticks, such as: `r 2+2`. But how to do that with RMark

Answer 1

To anyone looking at this now, you may want to check out the more recent solution here: embed Rmarkdown without knitr evaluation

Essentially you can do:

Some R code inline : `r knitr::inline_expr("2+2")`

I'm guessing that the functionality describe above has been added to knitr directly but it saves us defining the function ourselves.