Brackets in a node with text?

[orschiro]

Dear all,

I looked at the following example from the documentation:

id1[This is the text in the box]

I assumed to add brackets to the text as follows:

id1[This is the (text) in the box]

However, the Live Editor does not render the chart when using brackets.

Are brackets in node link texts supported?

Thankfully,

Robert

[knsv]

Put the text within quotes and you will have a diagram:

graph LR
id1["This is the (text) in the box"]

Good luck!

[knsv]

Thanks for bringing this up. I added a small example in the docs for this case:
http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/#special-characters-that-break-syntax

[orschiro]

It works. Thanks @knsv!

[shatadrusaha]

I am trying to use mermaid in a RMD document. But, when I try to use bracket within quotes, it doesn't work. Although, that was the solution provided above. My code works fine, when I don't use brackets. The code is given below:

mermaid("
graph TB;
A[Data Extraction
BGL + PCD vars] --> B[WOE Binning
PCD vars];

  B --> C[Data Sampling <br/> Train - 70% <br/> Test - 30%];
")

This produces the following graph:

I am trying to have the graph look like this in the first block

Data Extraction
(BGL + PCD vars)

[callum-savage]

@shatadrusaha

In an RMD document, you can still use double quotes for the node label if you surround the mermaid diagram with single quotes (the reverse doesn't seem to work).

library(DiagrammeR)

mermaid('
  graph TB;
  A["Data Extraction <br/> (BGL + PCD vars)"] --> B[WOE Binning <br/> PCD vars];
  B --> C[Data Sampling <br/> Train - 70% <br/> Test - 30%];
')

Which results in the following: