Diagrams are not rendering on pkgdown site

[JosiahParry]

Mermaid diagrams are not properly rendering on the pkgdown site.
Here is a screencap from https://tibble.tidyverse.org/articles/formats.html

[krlmlr]

@maelle: How can we make Mermaid work in pkgdown?

[maelle]

Related question: @krlmlr does this diagram work for you when you knit the vignette? It does not for me.

[maelle]

Interestingly DiagrammeR has a pkgdown website http://visualizers.co/diagrammer/ but no mermaid diagram sadly.

[maelle]

After experimenting a bit I discovered what works is using the Markdown of the diagram directly, I mean:

```{r echo = FALSE}
DiagrammeR::mermaid("graph TD
  Import --> Tidy
  Tidy --> Transform
  Transform --> Visualize
  Visualize --> Communicate
  Visualize --> Model
  Model -.-> Transform
")
```

I'm a bit surprised. I'm not sure whether this is pkgdown or DiagrammeR's doing however note I observe the same behavior (using the filename: the Markdown is printed in the doc; using the Markdown: the diagram appears) when knitting.

[maelle]

This works too:

```{r echo = FALSE}
text <- paste(
  readLines("r4ds.mmd"),
  collapse = "\n"
)
DiagrammeR::mermaid(text)
```

@krlmlr do you want me to make a PR with this "quick fix" or to investigate further/report to DiagrammeR?

[krlmlr]

Thanks. A quick fix is fine, we can even use something like

```{r echo = FALSE}
text <- "
<mermaid code>
"
DiagrammeR::mermaid(text)
```