Cross-reference a section inside a field in a table?

Question

Is it possible to cross-reference a section inside a field in a table with omething like the following?

# using "asis" results
a <- c(1,2)
b <- c("\@ref(some-section-id)")
df <- data.frame(a,b)
kableExtra::kable(df,
      format = "markdown")

When I tried the above code, it says

Error: '@' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting ""@"