knitr (version 1.7)

knit_child: Knit a child document

Description

This function knits a child document and returns a character string to input the result into the main document. It is designed to be used in the chunk option child and serves as the alternative to the SweaveInput command in Sweave.

Usage

knit_child(..., options = NULL, envir = knit_global())

Arguments

...
arguments passed to knit
options
a list of chunk options to be used as global options inside the child document (ignored if not a list); when we use the child option in a parent chunk, the chunk options of the parent chunk will be passed to the options argument
envir
the environment in which the code chunks are to be evaluated (for example, parent.frame(), new.env(), or globale

Value

  • A character string of the content of the compiled child document is returned as a character string so it can be written back to the parent document directly.

References

http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/child/

Examples

Run this code
# you can write \\Sexpr{knit_child('child-doc.Rnw')} in an Rnw file 'main.Rnw'
# to input results from child-doc.Rnw in main.tex

# comment out the child doc by \\Sexpr{knit_child('child-doc.Rnw', eval =
# FALSE)}

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