Escaping < and > in Readme.md inside code tags

[smilb]

Shiny appears to escape < and > in Readme.md, but when rendering them leaves them as the HTML entity codes when they are inside code tags.  For example, the following would render incorrectly if in the Readme.md file:

Here is an example command `a < 5`, which tests whether a is < 5.

The first < will show up as a &gt;, the second one will render properly.  Any way to work around this?

[Yihui Xie]

Thanks for the report! I noticed this problem as well. I think this is
a bug of showdown.js. I have filed an issue here:
https://github.com/rstudio/shiny/issues/529

Regards,
Yihui