Headers in Knitr

Question

Is there a way to use knitr from within the R console (not RStudio) to process a header. There are many examples using YAML headers such as:

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Answer 1

No, the YAML metadata is specific to R Markdown v2, i.e. the rmarkdown package. The knitr::knit2html() function is for R Markdown v1 only.