Ordered / Unordered lists not rendering .Rmd => Word

ProfTucker · August 21, 2018, 1:40am

I'm trying to get an ordered list to work with R Studio's R Markdown (knit to Word). I can't an unordered list to work either. Here is a screen capture of my MVP code + output. Any and all ideas welcome:

Thanks!

markdly · August 21, 2018, 3:21am

Is this limited to Word format only? That is, what happens if you knit to, say, html instead?

jcblum · August 21, 2018, 3:25am

This is just a guess, since I’m not on a computer where I can check but... you seem to be viewing the Word document using the Preview app, not Word itself. How does it look in Word? My recollection is that Preview doesn’t always render every aspect of a .docx file perfectly, and maybe pandoc’s output is running afoul of this?

ProfTucker · August 21, 2018, 2:36pm

Knitting to HTML works. As I discovered the issue isn't with RStudio / Markdown / or Pandoc, it is with Apple's Preview displaying the .docx output.

ProfTucker · August 21, 2018, 2:39pm

That is exactly the problem! Thanks! The non-proprietary open software (R, RMarkdown, etc) worked fine; the proprietary software (Apple's Preview) failed. So much time wasted on a dumb problem. Oh well. It's working now. Thanks again…