HTMLStart: Start / Stop the automatic redirection of output to HTML files

Description

Add the automatic redirection of output to an HTML file. The R session is modified in the following way: a new prompt is proposed (by default HTML>) and each parsed command is also evaluated using HTML generic method, so that the user benefits of both a normal and a HTML output. Please read carefully the details below.

Usage

HTMLStart(outdir = tempdir(), filename = "index", extension = "html",
echo = FALSE, autobrowse = FALSE, HTMLframe = TRUE, withprompt = "HTML> ",
CSSFile = "R2HTML.css", BackGroundColor = "FFFFFF", BackGroundImg = "",
Title = "R output") 
HTMLStop()

Value

no useful output is returned.

Arguments

outdir: physical directory to store the output
filename: name of the target HTML main file
extension: extension of the target HTML file (htm, html,...)
echo: should the parsed commands be written in the output? [boolean]
autobrowse: should the browser be invoked each time a command is issued? [boolean]
HTMLframe: should the output have a HTML frame structure? [boolean]
withprompt: prompt to display while using HTMLStart/HTMLStop
CSSFile: path and name of a CSS file to use
BackGroundColor: option bgcolor for HTML tag <body>
BackGroundImg: option background for HTML tag <body>
Title: string to pass to HTML <title> tag

Author

Eric Lecoutre

Details

The user may need to know the following points which describe how R2HTML does work:

- Each parsed command is evaluated and the returned value is passed to the generic function HTML. This evaluation is assured by addTaskCallback function, which is used to add a specific task each time R has to parse an expression.

- A new environment is built, where internal variables such as physical path are stored. This environment is not visible by the user. It is destroyed when calling HTMLStop.

Examples

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# Perform's one's own direct report

dir.create(file.path(tempdir(),"R2HTML"))
HTMLStart(file.path(tempdir(),"R2HTML"),HTMLframe=FALSE, Title="My report",autobrowse=FALSE)
as.title("This is my first title")
x <- 1
y<- 2
x+y
HTMLStop()


## Use for interactive teaching course
if (interactive()){
	dir.create(file.path(tempdir(),"R2HTML"))
	HTMLStart(file.path(tempdir(),"R2HTML"),echo=TRUE)
	as.title("Manipulation vectors")
	1:10
	sum(1:10)
	c(1:10,rep(3,4))
	HTMLStop()
}

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