After R-4.4.0 update colformat_md() and as_paragraph_md() ignores spaces, causes flextable::footnote() to break

[ErwinTATP]

After updating to R-4.4.0, the colformat_md() and as_paragraph_md() functions start to ignore the spaces between the words:

if (rmarkdown::pandoc_available("2.0.6")) {
  library(flextable)
  ft <- flextable(
    data.frame(
      x = c("**foo** bar", "***baz***", "*qux*"),
      stringsAsFactors = FALSE
    )
  ) %>%
    ftExtra::colformat_md(
      part = "all"
    ) %>%
    set_caption(
      caption = ftExtra::as_paragraph_md("This is a **caption**"),
      style = "caption"
    )
}

as can be seen in the following output:

Additionally, if I use as_paragraph_md() in footnote():

if (rmarkdown::pandoc_available("2.0.6")) {
  library(flextable)
  ft <- flextable(
    data.frame(
      x = c("**foo** bar", "***baz***", "*qux*"),
      stringsAsFactors = FALSE
    )
  ) %>%
    ftExtra::colformat_md(
      part = "all"
    ) %>%
    set_caption(
      caption = ftExtra::as_paragraph_md("This is a **caption**"),
      style = "caption"
    ) %>%
    footnote(
      i = 1, j = 1,
      value = ftExtra::as_paragraph_md("**footnote**"),
      ref_symbols = "*",
      part = "header", inline = TRUE
    )
}

the function would return the following error, no matter if the paragraph contains spaces or not:

Error in match.names(clabs, names(xi)) :
  names do not match previous names

Below are my sessionInfo():

- Session info --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 setting  value
 version  R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24 ucrt)
 os       Windows 11 x64 (build 22631)
 system   x86_64, mingw32
 ui       RTerm
 language (EN)
 collate  English_United Kingdom.1252
 ctype    English_United Kingdom.1252
 tz       Asia/Hong_Kong
 date     2024-05-02
 pandoc   2.14.2 @ C:/PROGRA~1/Pandoc/ (via rmarkdown)

- Packages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 package           * version date (UTC) lib source
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 [1] C:/Program Files/R/R-4.4.0/library

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[atusy]

Thank you for the report. I opened PR #106 to fix this.
Would you give a try with pak::pak('atusy/ftExtra#106)?

[ErwinTATP]

Seems to be fixed so far. Thanks!

[atusy]

Great!