I have a flexdashboard Rmd that renders correctly when i press the Knit button in RStudio. I would like to render it from the command line but the naviagation bar does change when I use the command render("myfile.rmd", flex_dashboard())
The heading of my Rmd file is the following:
---
title: "Flexdashboard"
output:
flexdashboard::flex_dashboard:
theme: cosmo
navbar:
- { title: "Draft-For Internal Use Only", align: right }
source_code: embed
---
You can call render with no arguments and it will pick up all of the options in YAML:
render("myfile.Rmd")
Altons was correct that using flex_dashboard() creates a new format that uses all the defaults. To render a format and keep the settings from YAML you use:
render("myfile.Rmd", "flex_dashboard")
But this latter form is only required if flex_dashboard isn't already the default format within the Rmd.
pass arguments within the flex_dashboard()
.
For example:
render("myfile.rmd", flex_dashboard(theme=simplex),output='myfile_html')
FWIW, and to prevent people from saying, wait, what's render
? Why can't I use knit
?.... o ok, so why can't I then use knit2html
? These are the steps to render a flexdashboard from the command line:
Install Pandoc
Close your current cmd
if you haven't already.
Run this command: "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.2.2\bin\x64\R.exe" -e "rmarkdown::render('C:/FULLPATH/myFlexDashboard.Rmd')"
If it works, put that in a .bat
file and celebrate!
(for step 3, note the slashes/backslashes... they should be exactly like that, but your R version might be different)