R/quarto_render_move.R

In jhelvy/jhelvyr: Miscellaneous R Functions

#' `quarto::quarto_render()`, but output file is moved to `output_dir`
#'
#' The default `quarto::quarto_render()` function can only render outputs
#' to the current working directory. This is a wrapper that moves the rendered
#' output to `output_dir`.
#' @param input Path to the input qmd file.
#' @param output_file The name of the output file. If using `NULL` then the
#' output filename will be based on filename for the input file.
#' @param output_dir Path to the output directory.
#' @param ... Other args passed to `quarto::quarto_render()`
#' @export
quarto_render_move <- function(
    input,
    output_file = NULL,
    output_dir = NULL,
    ...
) {

    # Get all the input / output file names and paths
    x <- quarto::quarto_inspect(input)
    output_format <- names(x$formats)
    output <- x$formats[[output_format]]$pandoc$`output-file`
    if (is.null(output_file)) { output_file <- output }
    input_dir <- dirname(input)
    if (is.null(output_dir)) { output_dir <- input_dir }
    output_path_from <- file.path(input_dir, output)
    output_path_to <- file.path(output_dir, output_file)

    # Render qmd file to input_dir
    quarto::quarto_render(input = input, ... = ...)

    # If output_dir is different from input_dir, copy the rendered output
    # there and delete the original file
    if (input_dir != output_dir) {

        # Try to make the folder if it doesn't yet exist
        if (!dir.exists(output_dir)) { dir.create(output_dir) }

        # Now move the output to the output_dir and remove the original output
        file.copy(
            from = output_path_from,
            to = output_path_to,
            overwrite = TRUE
        )
        file.remove(output_path_from)

    # If the output_dir is the same as input_dir, but the output_file
    # has a different name from the input file, then just rename it
    } else if (output_file != output) {
        file.rename(from = output_path_from, to = output_path_to)
    }
}