knit2html: Convert markdown to HTML using knit() and markdownToHTML()

In knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R

Description

This is a convenience function to knit the input markdown source and call markdown::markdownToHTML() in the markdown package to convert the result to HTML.

Usage

knit2html(
  input,
  output = NULL,
  ...,
  envir = parent.frame(),
  text = NULL,
  quiet = FALSE,
  encoding = "UTF-8",
  force_v1 = FALSE
)

Arguments

input	Path to the input file.
output	Path to the output file for knit(). If NULL, this function will try to guess a default, which will be under the current working directory.
...	Options passed to markdown::markdownToHTML().
envir	Environment in which code chunks are to be evaluated, for example, parent.frame(), new.env(), or globalenv()).
text	A character vector. This is an alternative way to provide the input file.
quiet	Boolean; suppress the progress bar and messages?
encoding	Encoding of the input file; always assumed to be UTF-8 (i.e., this argument is effectively ignored).
force_v1	Boolean; whether to force rendering the input document as an R Markdown v1 document, even if it is for v2.

Value

If the argument text is NULL, a character string (HTML code) is returned; otherwise the result is written into a file and the filename is returned.

Note

The markdown package is for R Markdown v1, which is much less powerful than R Markdown v2, i.e. the rmarkdown package (https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com). To render R Markdown v2 documents to HTML, please use rmarkdown::render() instead.

See Also

knit, markdown::markdownToHTML

Examples

# a minimal example
writeLines(c("# hello markdown", "```{r hello-random, echo=TRUE}", "rnorm(5)", "```"), 
    "test.Rmd")
knit2html("test.Rmd")
if (interactive()) browseURL("test.html")

unlink(c("test.Rmd", "test.html", "test.md"))

Example output

processing file: test.Rmd

  |                                                                       
  |                                                                 |   0%
  |                                                                       
  |................................                                 |  50%
  ordinary text without R code


  |                                                                       
  |.................................................................| 100%
label: hello-random (with options) 
List of 1
 $ echo: logi TRUE


output file: test.md

knitr documentation built on Jan. 27, 2021, 5:09 p.m.