incompatibility between ** and :

[pachadotdev]

Hi

If I write

library(pander)
pander(sessionInfo())

The part about **Platform:** is wrongly displayed in html/LaTeX after markdown conversion.

If I just replace to <b>Platform:<b>its displayed ok.

[daroczig]

Can you share your sessionInfo() and how the pander version looks? I can only test on Linux now which seems to work fine:

[pachadotdev]

here is it

> library(pander)
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /usr/local/Cellar/openblas/0.2.19_1/lib/libopenblasp-r0.2.19.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] pander_0.6.0 bindrcpp_0.2 dplyr_0.7.2 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] compiler_3.4.1   magrittr_1.5     assertthat_0.2.0 R6_2.2.2         tools_3.4.1      glue_1.1.1      
 [7] tibble_1.3.3     yaml_2.1.14      Rcpp_0.12.12     digest_0.6.12    pkgconfig_2.0.1  rlang_0.1.1     
[13] bindr_0.1     

> pander(sessionInfo())
**R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)**

**Platform:** x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) 

**locale:**
en_US.UTF-8||en_US.UTF-8||en_US.UTF-8||C||en_US.UTF-8||en_US.UTF-8

**attached base packages:** 
_stats_, _graphics_, _grDevices_, _utils_, _datasets_, _methods_ and _base_

**other attached packages:** 
_pander(v.0.6.0)_, _bindrcpp(v.0.2)_ and _dplyr(v.0.7.2)_

**loaded via a namespace (and not attached):** 
_compiler(v.3.4.1)_, _magrittr(v.1.5)_, _assertthat(v.0.2.0)_, _R6(v.2.2.2)_, _tools(v.3.4.1)_, _glue(v.1.1.1)_, _tibble(v.1.3.3)_, _yaml(v.2.1.14)_, _Rcpp(v.0.12.12)_, _digest(v.0.6.12)_, _pkgconfig(v.2.0.1)_, _rlang(v.0.1.1)_ and _bindr(v.0.1)_

[daroczig]

Thanks for your prompt reply, but I don't see any markdown issue in this output, so I'm closing the ticket. But please feel free to reopen with some additional information, eg screenshot of the malformed PDF and HTML and some research on what might be wrong with the current markdown. Thanks!

[pachadotdev]

sorry, I misunderstood

here is a sample in Rmd

---

title: "Reporting :** error " output: html_document

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)

R Markdown

library(pander)
pander(sessionInfo())

And the result is (see the "Platform")

If I find a solution I'll send a pull request :)

[daroczig]

Thanks for the clarification -- now I see the problem :)

[daroczig]

Debugging this for a while, I don't think that it's a pander issue -- pander is providing proper markdown. Rendering that into HTML or PDF or other document format works without problem using pandoc.

But you are right, it indeed fails when running from RStudio, and that's because RStudio runs pandoc when knitting the document to HTLM with the markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash pandoc extensions -- as per the docs:

By default R Markdown is defined as all pandoc markdown extensions with the following tweaks for backward compatibility with the markdown package:

I'm pretty sure those extra tweaks can be disabled somehow in the R Markdown yaml header, but I'm not sure how to do that. I hope this helped.