Pandoc.convert: Converts Pandoc to other format

In pander: An R 'Pandoc' Writer

Converts Pandoc to other format

Description

Calling John MacFarlane's great program to convert specified file (see f parameter below) or character vector see text paramater to other formats like HTML, pdf, docx, odt etc.

Usage

Pandoc.convert(
  f,
  text,
  format = "html",
  open = TRUE,
  options = "",
  footer = FALSE,
  proc.time,
  portable.html = TRUE,
  pandoc.binary = panderOptions("pandoc.binary")
)

Arguments

f	Pandoc's markdown format file path. If URL is provided then the generated file's path is tempfile() but please bear in mind that this way only images with absolute path would shown up in the document.
text	Pandoc's markdown format character vector. Treated as the content of f file - so the f parameter is ignored. The generated file's path is tempfile().
format	required output format. For all possible values here check out Pandoc homepage: https://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
open	try to open converted document with operating system's default program
options	optionally passed arguments to Pandoc (instead of pander's default)
footer	add footer to document with meta-information
proc.time	optionally passed number in seconds which would be shown in the generated document's footer
portable.html	instead of using local files, rather linking JS/CSS files to an online CDN for portability and including base64-encoded images if converting to HTML without custom options
pandoc.binary	custom path to pandoc's binary if not found in the path or not set in the RSTUDIO_PANDOC env var

Value

Converted file's path.

Note

This function depends on Pandoc which should be pre-installed on user's machine. See the INSTALL file of the package.

References

John MacFarlane (2012): _Pandoc User's Guide_. https://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html

Examples

## Not run: 
Pandoc.convert(text = c('# Demo', 'with a paragraph'))
Pandoc.convert('https://rapporter.github.io/pander/minimal.md')
# Note: the generated HTML is not showing images with relative path from the above file.
# Based on that `pdf`, `docx` etc. formats would not work! If you want to convert an
# online markdown file to other formats with this function, please pre-process the file
# to have absolute paths instead.

## End(Not run)

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