Knitr: print text from code block as R markdown

Question

I have the following R Markdown document:

---
title: "Test"
output: html_document
---

```{r cars, echo=FALSE}
myCondition <- TRUE
if(myCondition) {
  print("## Car Summary")
}
summary(cars)
```

When I Knit it to HTML, the "Car Summary" header is rendered in "terminal-like" monospaced font as this:

## [1] "## Car Summary"

But I want it rendered as a header. How do I achieve this?

Answer 1

This should work for you:

```{r cars, echo=FALSE, results='asis'}
myCondition <- TRUE
if(myCondition) {
  cat("## Car Summary")
}
```

```{r, echo=FALSE}
summary(cars)
```

Note that the option results = 'asis' is important to print the header. Also note that print() will not work, but cat() .