a news item for #1605 and #1611

yihui · Oct 9, 2018 · 3abb642 · 3abb642
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 Package: knitr
 Type: Package
 Title: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R
-Version: 1.20.18
+Version: 1.20.19
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
     person("Adam", "Vogt", role = "ctb"),

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 - The chunk option `fig.env` does not work for PDF output from R Markdown (thanks, @RSchwinn, #1620).
 
+- `spin()` fails to generate a proper R Markdown document when the R script contains roxygen comments as string literals or more than three backticks (thanks, @yutannihilation, #1605, #1611).
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 ## MINOR CHANGES
 
 - `spin()` will close each individual code chunk if multiple code chunks appear consecutively (previously it only closes the last code chunk in this case) (thanks, @avehtari, #1590).