German Umlaut characters in R markdown

Question

How can I display non-English characters in R-markdown? In an otherwise English document, I would like to render a single \'u\' with two dots (an \'umlaut\') on top

Answer 1

You can use standard HTML code for this. For example, the German letter ä can be displayed by placing the corresponding vowel after an ampersand sign, followed by uml;, i.e., ä.

Here's an example of a .Rmd file:

---
title: "Umlauts with Rmarkdown"
output: html_document
---

## This is a sentence with many umlaut characters:

Herr Müller sagt: "Über den Wolken können Sonnenuntergänge 
besonders schön sein."