Including (sub) documents

[vnijs]

Saw your blog plots. Thanks for putting that together. FYI a convenient way to include (sub) documents in another Rmd file is to use the child option (http://stackoverflow.com/a/17605475/1974918)

[lmmx]

Ah thank you so much! As I guess you read I was considering running brew on an intermediate to write the YAML list of what to include: - since the child option seems to take a character vector, I'm sure I could run list.files() and supply the list programmatically through that instead... Hmm...

[vnijs]

That should work I think. There are really powerful tools to create documents with r and markdown but imho they lack simple examples to help users get started. hadley/rsmith , for example, seems really interesting but it is not very clear how to use whisker tempting with rmarkdown documents. Anyway, keep posting!

Ah thank you so much! As I guess you read I was considering running brew on an intermediate to write the YAML list of what to include: - since the child option seems to take a character vector, I'm sure I could run list.files() and supply the list programmatically through that instead... Hmm...

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[lmmx]

Code chunk now in the example file analysis.Rmd rather than the YAML includes: header :

```{r child = c("analysis-i.md", "analysis-ii.md", "analysis-iii.md")}
# The 'children' of the 'main' document can be specified (with the same result as the `include: after_body:` field in the YAML header) with either an explicit list:
#
# ```{r child = c("analysis-i.md", "analysis-ii.md", "analysis-iii.md")}
# ```
#
# or a call to `list.files`:
#
# ```{r child = list.files(pattern = 'analysis-.*?\\.md')}
# ```
# The former is preferable, but NB throws error if pattern doesn't match since child = character(0)
```

Using the explicit list rather than file globbing for now as commented, an if statement would be needed to use list.files, and of note the ordering of Roman numerals would not be as expected based on default list.files alphanumeric ordering (markdown files would be appended out of order).