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Dambo
Dambo

Reputation: 3496

What's the equivalent of pressing the button knit in RMarkdown?

I kind of know the answer, which is render(). However, when I render the code below, the output is not consistent with the one that I would get by simply pressing knit. In fact, the table is not rendered as expected from the function kable.

---
title: "Untitled"
output:
  pdf_document: default
  html_document: default
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

## R Markdown
```{r results='asis'}
library(knitr)
library(dplyr)

print_kable <- function(species) {
        iris %>% filter(Species == species) %>% 
            summarise(avg=mean(Sepal.Width)) %>% 
            kable(caption=paste('Results for', species)) %>% print
        }

ff <- lapply(c("setosa", "versicolor", "virginica"), print_kable)

```

To call the renderer I use rmarkdown::render('testLookKable.Rmd', output_dir = 'standardReports/', runtime = 'static', output_format = 'pdf_document').

This is how the tables look like when I press the botton to knit to pdf:

enter image description here

And this is how to it looks like when I render() by typing in the function

enter image description here

What I am trying to achieve is the first output, but rendering by explicitly running the function rather then pressing the botton.

From sessionInfo():

R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sierra 10.12.4
rmarkdown_1.5
knitr_1.15.1

Upvotes: 0

Views: 358

Answers (1)

IRTFM
IRTFM

Reputation: 263481

I was getting errors about pdflatex not being found (despite multiple versions of found by locate. After setting my current version of TexLive to 2016,

machine-name:~ username$  texdist —-current
machine-name:~ username$  pdflatex -v
# pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016)

I still needed to do this (copied from an answer on SO):

 sudo ln -fhs Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin /Library/TeX/texbin
 echo "/Library/TeX/texbin" >~/Desktop/TeX
 sudo cp ~/Desktop/TeX /etc/paths.d/TeX
 echo "/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man" >~/Desktop/TeX
 sudo cp ~/Desktop/TeX /etc/manpaths.d/TeX
 echo /Library/TeX/texbin

I now get sort of a combined version of your two images:

enter image description here

I had also edited PATH to remove the pre-El Cap item: usr/bin/texbin and put in /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin:. None of which worked. (I'm not using RStudio.)

Upvotes: 1

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