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compileMarkdown: Compiles a Markdown file

Description

Compiles a Markdown file to HTML.

Usage

# S3 method for default
compileMarkdown(filename, path=NULL, ..., outPath=".", header=NULL,
  metadata=getMetadata(filename), verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

filename, path

The filename and (optional) path of the Markdown document to be compiled.

...

Additional arguments passed to markdownToHTML.

outPath

The output and working directory.

header

character vector of valid HTML strings that should be added to the HTML <head> section.

metadata

A named list with meta data that will add as <meta> tags in the HTML <head> section.

verbose

See Verbose.

Value

Returns the pathname of the generated HTML document.

Details

The input encoding is based on getOption("encoding") and the output encoding is "UTF-8" (forced by markdownToHTML).

See Also

Internally, markdownToHTML is used.