Elsevier rticle not rendering affiliation properly - r-markdown

Question

I am using the elsevier rticle template to prepare a paper with rmarkdown. When I knit it, commas do not get rendered in the institutional affiliation. This can be reproduced by installing rticles, creating a rmarkdown from the elsevier template, and knitting it. As can be seen below, the commas between Department, Street etc fail to render out of the box.
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use a raw attribute in the yaml block to properly format the latex code used to specify affiliations. Here I modified the yaml block in the rticles template:
title: Short Paper
author:
- name: Alice Anonymous
email: alice#example.com
affiliation: a
correspondingauthor: true
footnote: 1
- name: Bob Security
email: bob#example.com
affiliation: b
- name: Cat Memes
email: cat#example.com
affiliation: b
footnote: 2
- name: Derek Zoolander
email: derek#example.com
affiliation: b
footnote: 2
address:
- code: a
address: |
```{=latex}
organization={Some Institute of Technology},
addressline={Street},
city={City}, state={State}, postcode={Zip},
country={United States}
```
- code: b
address: |
```{=latex}
organization={Another University},
addressline={Street},
city={City}, state={State}, postcode={Zip},
country={United States}
```