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Difference: “Compile PDF” button in RStudio vs. knit() and knit2pdf()

First of all, I think this question is easier to answer if you limit the scope to the “Compile PDF” button, because the “Knit HTML” button is a different story. “Compile PDF” is only for Rnw documents (R + LaTeX, or think Sweave). I’ll answer your question following the three points you suggested: Currently RStudio … Read more

YAML current date in rmarkdown

This is a little bit tricky, but you just need to make the date field valid in YAML by quoting the inline R expression, e.g. date: “`r format(Sys.time(), ‘%d %B, %Y’)`” Then the parsing error will be gone, and the date will be generated in the markdown output so Pandoc can use the value from … Read more