python highlighting in Rmarkdown in RStudio

Question

I\'m using RStudio 0.98.1103. It is said in release notes that they\'ve added \"Syntax highlighting modes for XML, YAML, SQL, Python, and shell scripts.\" But when I write somet

Answer 1

The engine option tells knitr which language to use to actually run the code chunk.

What they are referring to in the release notes is syntax highlighting in the source code editor. Open an existing Python source file in the editor and you will see it is correctly highlighted.

Language-dependent syntax highlighting is usually selected based on the underlying language of the file you are editing (often simply based on the filename extension). In your example, you are editing a .RMd file, so the editor uses the syntax rules for r-markdown.