external_highlight: Multi-language source code highlighter

In highlight: Syntax highlighter

Description

Multi language source code highlighter

Usage

    external_highlight(file, outfile = stdout(), theme = "kwrite", 
        lang = NULL, 
        type = "HTML", 
        line_numbers = FALSE, 
        doc = TRUE, 
        code
        )

Arguments

file	Source file to highlight.
outfile	Destination of the highlighted code. When NULL, the code is simply returned as a character vector
theme	One of the themes. See highlight_themes for the list of available themes.
lang	The language in which the code is to be interpreted. If this argument is not given, it will be deduced from the file extension.
type	Output format. See highlight_output_types for the list of supported output types.
line_numbers	if TRUE, the result will include line numbers
doc	if TRUE, the result is a stand alone document, otherwise, just a portion to include in a document.
code	If code is given, then the source code is not read from the file.

Value

Nothing if outfile is given, with the side effect of writing into the file.

The result as a character vector if outfile is NULL

References

Based on the highlight library from http://www.andre-simon.de/index.html

See Also

highlight to highlight R code using the information from the parser.

highlight documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:58 p.m.