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Resurrection of #581.
As noted there, we can't get a fully general solution, as run-time usage of opts_chunk$set(eval = FALSE) is very hard to detect.
Still, I think it's feasible for us to look at chunk-level options as an improvement over status quo. The key will be using knitr:::parse_params():
https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/e8aae19fcc7443b8a212c8dc65ba2b83894f1fe0/R/parser.R#L174
which takes as input a string like "x, eval = stop('haha')" and outputs a key-value list like list(label = "x", eval = quote(stop('haha'))).
Parsing chunk params is also something we want for #773.
At a glance, using eval = FALSE is a very common way to tell knitr to skip R chunks:
https://github.com/search?q=filename%3ARmd+%22eval+%3D+FALSE%22
It looks like GH search can't help us find "```r" usage; I also don't see any usage of opts_chunk$set(eval = FALSE):
https://github.com/search?q=filename%3ARmd+%22opts_chunk%24set%22%2C+%22eval+%3D+FALSE%22
So I think this issue is pretty high-impact & value, even if imperfect.