Equations and references lost when knitting RMarkdown document as Word

Question

(I'm not sure if this question is better suited to the LaTeX forum. I have posted it here because I suspect the problem is more about knitr and RMarkdown than LaTeX.)

I have the following RMarkdown document in RStudio:

 ---
 title: 'Capricious Behavior In Markdown: A Case Study'
 header-includes:
 - \usepackage{natbib}
 - \setcitestyle{square,numbers,super}
 output:
  word_document: default
  pdf_document:
    citation_package: natbib
  html_document: default
bibliography: refs.bib
---
Here's an equation with a citation\citep{aune}:

\begin{align}
5 &= 5
\end{align}

which produces the desired result when knitted as PDF:

but mysteriously loses both the equation and the reference when knitted as Word:

How do I produce a Word document that looks like the PDF?

This post discusses tweaking word output to different styles. May be worth checking out: stackoverflow.com/questions/37671868/… — Z.Lin

jay.sf jay.sf · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-25T11:51:47

According to rdabbler I accomplished equations in Word using this code:

$$
\begin{array}{c}
5 = 5 
\end{array}
$$

Unfortunately equation numbering has beaten me, perhaps you can live with this issue.

As I rather used the pandoc native citation references they are even working with Word, but the style seems to be different to yours with the superscript numbers.

Equations and references lost when knitting RMarkdown document as Word

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