yihui/knitr — pull request #651 by krlmlr (2013-11-02 21:15:56+00:00)
Title: errors in inline expressions are not printed to the console

...or was this intended? Errors in chunks are not printed to the console.

There might be a cleaner way to implement this, e.g. by providing a function .trySilent, as try(..., silent = TRUE) is used all over the place.