title: Create bracketed text in R markdown (in a bulleted list)
body: <p>In normal Markdown I could bracket the word "purple" by simply putting brackets around the word, like this [purple]. This also works in R Markdown.</p>
  
  <p>However I have a unique R Markdown situation. Let's describe it:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I've got the word "Purple" bracketed in a bulleted list.</li>
  <li>I've also got a heading below titled "Purple".</li>
  </ol>
  
  <pre><code>---
  title: "Untitled"
  output: html_document
  ---
  
  ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
  knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
  ```
  
  &lt;!-- Line 10 is directly below this. This is line 9. --&gt;
  * [Purple] blue red  
  
  * \[Purple\] blue red  
  
  ** \\[Purple\\] blue red  
  
  ### Purple
  
  Purple blue red.
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qArQJ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qArQJ.png" alt="purple"></a></p>
  
  <p>As a consequence:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>R Markdown links my bracketed [purple] to it's heading further down in the document.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Instead of linking the word "purple" to it's heading below, how do I instead get the following at line #10 of this R Markdown document (without any linking at all):</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <ul>
    <li>[Purple] blue red</li>
    </ul>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>My attempts at escaping seem to generate LaTeX output and I also assume this all might be an issue in normal Markdown, not just R Markdown (just a guess).</p>