R markdown doesn't knit author name in pdf

Question

I am writing a document in r markdown. When I knit it to pdf, instead of the author name the pdf simply displays "true.

The knitting works perfectly well with html outputs, besides it seems to me it should work.

---
title: "knitr will you work please?"
author:
  name: John Smith
output: pdf_document
---

The output will display

knitr will you work please?
true

and not

knitr will you work please?
John Smith

I'm not sure why this works in HTML but not PDF. One fix is to use `author: "John Smith"`. — neilfws, Jul 30 '19 at 22:25
Related https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26043807/multiple-authors-and-subtitles-in-rmarkdown-yaml and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52918716/authors-and-affiliations-in-the-yaml-of-rmarkdown — duckmayr, Jul 30 '19 at 23:15

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '19 at 23:14

2

It should be like this

---
title: "knitr will you work please?"
author: John Smith
output: pdf_document
---

answered Jul 30 '19 at 23:14

ghosh'.

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