Rmarkdown hyperlink created from a chunk

Question

I would like to create a hyperlink in an RMarkdown document that changes according to the value of a variable located in a chunk. for example

variable <- "questions/ask"
http_address <- glue::glue("https://stackoverflow.com/{variable}")

[Click to reveal](`r http_address)

In the html document I would like to hover over "Click to reveal" so that the link is https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask. However the above code doesn't work. Any tips would be appreciated

Answer 1

Using chunk option results="asis" and cat you could do

---
title: "Untitled"
output: html_document
date: '2022-04-19'
---

```{r results='asis', echo = FALSE}
variable <- "questions/ask"
http_address <- glue::glue("https://stackoverflow.com/{variable}")
cat("[Click to reveal](", http_address, ")")
```