Life is like a box of Github issues. Hiroaki reported a bug (#1621) in knitr in 2018, which was finally fixed by Atsushi last month in his PR #2047.
Two issues appeared on Github, and I—
I merged the PR that looked obviously correct,
And that has made all the difference.
The change
I plan to make a breaking change in knitr, but have not decided the timeline and would …