Rmarkdown removes citation hyperlink

Question

when using Rmarkdown to build a pdf with citations included, it removes the hyperlinks of the citations by default.

Looking at the latex file produced, I can see \\u

Answer 1

Example of YAML for link citations in Rmd using PDF

---
title: "Introduction to data mining – Assignment"
author: "Your Name"
date: "Date"
output: 
  pdf_document: default
bibliography: .bib
csl: .csl
link-citations: yes
linkcolor: blue
---

In text quote.

Here is my quote @AuthorYear