knitr (version 1.10.5)

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

Description

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

Usage

knit2html(input, output = NULL, ..., envir = parent.frame(), text = NULL, quiet = FALSE, 
    encoding = getOption("encoding"))

Arguments

input

path of the input file

output

path of the output file for knit(); if NULL, this function will try to guess and it will be under the current working directory

...

options passed to markdownToHTML

envir

the environment in which the code chunks are to be evaluated (for example, parent.frame(), new.env(), or globale

text

a character vector as an alternative way to provide the input file

quiet

whether to suppress the progress bar and messages

encoding

the encoding of the input file; see file

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.

See Also

knit, 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")