In short, my issue is that I have custom classes which print nicely in the RStudio console, but look horrible in R Markdown since special characters are shown as UTF8 codes. As an example, in the RStudio console you get this behaviour:
cat("\U2713")
#> ✓
Whereas, rendering this using knitr you get:
---
title: "test"
output: html_document
---
```{r}
cat("\U2713")
```
Is there a way to effectively get the same behaviour in knitr chunk outputs as in the RStudio console? Including the inline code `r "\U2713"` in markdown documents correctly renders as '✓', so I feel like this should be easy to achieve.
