title: Escape forward slash in R Markdown
body: <p>I cannot figure out how to escape a forward slash in markdown. I am building a personal website with blogdown (program R) and Hugo, and the forward slashes in my DOIs keep formatting as division rather than forward slashes.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Problematic display:</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/miyr9.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/miyr9.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p><strong>Escaped:</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tOFhO.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tOFhO.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p><strong>What I want:</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/q5tJX.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/q5tJX.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I thought I could escape them with a backslash, but the backslash appears in the output. Surprisingly can't find anything on this in markdown's documentation... how do I escape a forward slash?</p>