I used $ as a name for one of my sections. I then noticed that the hyperlink from my table of contents to that section does not work. Can this be fixed? I've tried escaping it with \ and I've even tried $, but neither changed the outcome.
This is my header
output:
github_document:
toc: true
I have reproduced your problem in this code example with R Studio Version 4.1.
It seems to be a github_document thing, because it works when you knit to output: html_document.
A possible solution is to add a backslash-escaped space ( # $ \ )behind the dollar and it is parsed as a nonbreaking space.
---
title: "Repro Example Dollar Sign in title"
output:
github_document:
toc: TRUE
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```
Some Example content to test whether shortcut works
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# Header One (normal text)
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# $
If $ is without text it doesn't work
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# $ \
Add a backslash-escaped space behind the dollar and it is parsed as a nonbreaking space.
```{r cars}
summary(cars)
```
## $ Header 2 with dollar and text in title (shortcut works)
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# header 3
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Versions that I tested which don't work:
# `r stringr::str_pad("$", width = 3, side = "right")` # $•• (double space)```{r results='asis'} cat("#", " $", " ") ```