Rmarkdown backticks inside inline code / inconsistent behavior with usual code chunks

Question

This works in a usual code chunk in R markdown:

m1_aov <- anova(m1)
m1_aov$`Sum Sq`[2] %>% round(3)

Unfortunately, using the latter in inline code breaks the knitr parser down

`r m1_aov$`Sum Sq`[2] %>% round(3)`

Indeed, it also breaks Stackoverflow.

I looked at this related question but could not infer a working solution to my problem. Any hint?

Answer 1

Expanding the comment with a working example:

---
output: html_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

## R Markdown

```{r}
a <- tibble::tibble(`a column` = 1:10) # using tibble to get a column name with a white space
m <- mean(a$`a column`)
```

Mean is `r m`

To me this looks like a neat trick because it avoids to include unecessary long code inside the text, and do not create the problem you are facing at the (small) cost of creating new objects.

The output: