When writing Rhtml documents you can utilize <!--rinline x --> to write inline code in the Rhtml document. However, this code is wrapped in <code class="inline knitr">x</code> which can wreck havoc on basic formatting.
Is there a way to remove this entirely? So that only x is written into the document.
I'm assuming you mean that only the output of what is stored in x is written into the document. You can get this by wrapping the expression in I().
Compare the differences in the output of this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Test document</p>
<!--rinline x <- 3 -->
<!--rinline x -->
<!--rinline I(x) -->
</body>
</html>
This produces the following body:
<body>
<p>Test document</p>
<code class="knitr inline">3</code>
3
</body>
We can see that the first rinline gets the code tag while the second just inserts the output into the document directly.
I() before.