Embed a YouTube video in RMarkdown in 2021

Question

All solutions found using Google don't work for me. Can someone show me a simplest possible .Rmd file that embeds a YouTube video?

According to R Markdown: The Definitive Guide something as simple as ![](https://youtu.be/zNzZ1PfUDNk) should work. This post on SO tells me to use:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://youtu.be/zNzZ1PfUDNk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

My simple .Rmd file with only these two snippets looks like this:

![](https://youtu.be/zNzZ1PfUDNk)

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://youtu.be/zNzZ1PfUDNk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

But knitted to an HTML I only get this:

What am I missing here?

Looks like your output is not just a plane Rmarkdown file, have you tried the youtube video in an absolutely plain R markdown file? — Daniel_j_iii, Jul 16 '21 at 21:53

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 07 '22 at 17:39

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I had the exact same problem, but found the answer. You have to install the package "vembedr" and then just write: embed_url("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD_n6ju9iRA") in a codechunk. Works perfectly if you or anybody still need it.

You can also get more information here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vembedr/vignettes/embed.html

edited Jan 07 '22 at 17:39

TeachMeJava

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answered Jan 07 '22 at 03:33

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Embed a YouTube video in RMarkdown in 2021

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