Is there a way in knitr to evaluate inline code chunks of other languages?

Question

In knitr it is possible to use other languages in code blocks. For example, we can use:

```{python}
Some python code
```

We can use the R engine inline with `r some R code`

Is it possible to use other languages in inline code?

For example, I would like to do something like this `python some code`.

Thanks.

For now, no. It might become possible in the future (I have received a pull request quite a while ago). — Yihui Xie, Dec 14 '17 at 23:20
Bonjour Marc-André, here is an example of the use of the listings package https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47414027/how-to-create-r-markdown-sections-inside-a-r-code-chunk-with-proper-code-displa/47617773#47617773 — Cedric, Dec 15 '17 at 21:14
Thanks [Yihui Xie](https://stackoverflow.com/users/559676/yihui-xie) for your quick response. It's much appreciated. [Cedric](https://stackoverflow.com/users/4494862/cedric), I will try to use the listings package but it seems much more complex than knitr. — Marc-André Désautels, Dec 18 '17 at 14:51

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 31 '17 at 16:06

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Evaluate inline with `r shell(...)`

The shell command could be a python script that produces output for inline display. You could even pass in a shell=python3 argument.

answered Dec 31 '17 at 16:06

J_H

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