This is the YAML header of an RMarkdown IEEE rticle I'm writing in RStudio.
---
title: Analysis of the impact of ...
author:
- name: First Lást
affiliation: xx
department: yy
location: zz
email: aa
abstract: |
This study aims to investigate ...
bibliography: mybibfile.bib
output: rticles::ieee_article
csl: ieee.csl
---
In the author section, the á will not get printed when converted to PDF with knitr
I've tried with different combinations such as \u{á}, $\á$ and even \u0225 (the unicode for that character) without any luck.
How does one include special characters in that section so they are properly displayed when converted to PDF?