knitrengines: A package to collect and seamlessly add knitr engines to...

In hrbrmstr/knitrengines: Collection of Language Engines for Use with the 'knitr' Package

A package to collect and seamlessly add knitr engines to knitr

Description

The knitr package already has support for a plethora of languages besides R code chunks (26 as of the last update to this package). That is probably sufficient for the vast majority of users.

Details

However, if you need to perform some processing in another languages and want to include it in your reproducible workflow, this package will allow you to incorporate those language code chunks provided there is a matching knitr language processor available.

To use one of these alternate code chunks, just ensure you have a call to library(knitrengines) at in an R code chunk at the top of your R markdown file then use one of the available engines via the short name below as the package will auto-register them on attach.

This package contains support for the following engines:

go

Go language support

elixir

Elixir language support

You can contribe to the project on GitHub and add support for other language code chunks. The only real downside is that these language chunks do not have access to the variables in/across chunks, so you have to export the data from previous chunks to files (or databases, etc.) to access it (if needed).

Before you go creating other engines, these are the ones knitr already supports: awk, bash, coffee, gawk, groovy, haskell, node, perl, python, Rscript, ruby, sas, scala, sed, sh, zsh, highlight, Rcpp, tikz, dot, c, fortran, asy, cat, asis, stan.

Author(s)

Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)

hrbrmstr/knitrengines documentation built on Sept. 17, 2023, 2:29 a.m.