Knitr inline chunk options (no evaluation) or just render highlighted code

Question

I cannot find information on whether it is possible to specify options for inline chunks in knitr. I\'ve just tried specifying them, as in the regular chunk, but this gives

Answer 1

Thanks to Yihui you can do,

\documentclass{article} 
<>= 
knit_hooks$set(inline = function(x) { 
  if (is.numeric(x)) return(knitr:::format_sci(x, 'latex')) 
  highr::hi_latex(x) 
}) 
@ 
\begin{document} 

the value of $\pi$ is \Sexpr{pi}, and the function to read a table is 
\Sexpr{'read.table()'}. 

<>= 
rnorm(10) 
@ 
\end{document}