How to syntax highlight inline R code in R Markdown?

Question

This question is similar to consistent code html inline and in chunks with knitr. Instead of .Rhtml documents, I want to highlight inline R code in R Markdown documents, e.g

Answer 1

Now-a-days:

Here is some `plot(cars, main = 'A scatterplot.')`{.R} inline R code

Well, I don't know specifically about R and the way you're using it, but for most languages (pandoc uses the skylighting pkg to do this), you can do inline code blocks with the above syntax.