To have R chunk in line with text using knitr

Question

How to have R code (R chunk) inline with my text?

Example:

Please install the package by using install.packages(\"ISwR\")

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Answer 1

Following a suggestion from Yihui,

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

Please install the package by using \Sexpr{'install.packages("ISwR")'}. 

\end{document}