Right now, none of the smart keys work in embedded language code for Markdown (.markdown and .rmd).
In order for most smart keys to work for embedded languages, the outer language must at least list tags. However, in the case of R (or Kotlin, Groovy, and Scala), there's also the requirement for a statement level parser. It's doubtful we will have time to do that.
We can make smart keys work for other embedded languages without statement level tagging (just a proc_search function). However, this won't help R (or Kotlin, Groovy, and Scala).