How to wrap text in R source with tidy and knitr

Question

I\'m working with knitr lately and while most aspects of that have gone quite smoothly, there\'s one formatting issue with including R code in the finished document that I haven

Answer 1

This is an extremely manual solution, but one which I have used.

You build the string up, using paste0 and that gives tidy a chance to split it.

longstr <- paste0("This string will flow off the right side"," of the page, because tidy doesn't know how to wrap it.")