knitr (version 0.9)

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

Description

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

Usage

knit2html(input, ..., text = NULL, envir = parent.frame())

Arguments

...

options passed to markdownToHTML

input

path of the input file

text

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

envir

the environment in which the code chunks are to be evaluated (can use new.env() to guarantee an empty new environment)

Value

• If the argument text is NULL, a character string (HTML code) is returned; otherwise the result is written into a file and NULL 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")