title: RMarkdown code syntax inside a block quote
body: <p>Is there a way to have code syntax inside a block quote using RMarkdown (knitr, Knit to HTML)?
  Example Rmd file:</p>
  <pre><code>---
  title: &quot;MyTitle&quot;
  author: &quot;Me&quot;
  date: &quot;Today&quot;
  output:
    html_document:
      fig_caption: true
      toc: true
      toc_float: true
  --- 
  
  # Introduction
  
  &gt; My block quote
  saying things here
  ```
  some code here, but within the block quote
  and more of the same here
  ```
  </code></pre>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SAmYi.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SAmYi.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>