make_site provides Makefile-like functionality to render only the R
Markdown files that have been modified. This is in contrast to
rmarkdown::render_site, which always renders all the pages. You should
use the latter if you've made aesthetic changes that you want applied to all
the R Markdown files.
make_site(dry_run = FALSE, path = ".", ...)Identifies R Markdown files that have been updated, but does not render them.
By default the function assumes the current working directory is within the project. If this is not true, you'll need to provide the path to the project directory.
Additional arguments that can be passed to
rmarkdown::render_site. Should only be needed for testing potential
changes. Any permanent settings should be specified in
analysis/_site.yml.
If dry_run = TRUE, returns the character vector of R Markdown
files that would be rendered. Otherwise invisibly returns this vector.
Under the hood, this runs rmarkdown::render_site on each updated file
individually. This provides all the website styling (which you would lose if
you ran rmarkdown::render) without re-building the entire site (which
would happen if you ran rmarkdown::render_site with no arguments).