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Reputation: 2800

Embed but don't run R scripts in Rmarkdown

I am writing a paper in Rmarkdown about an ongoing project. I have my own .Rmd file where I am writing it.

At the same time, I have several scripts in R stored in different files with the extension .R.

In different parts of the paper I need to describe what it is in those R scripts, so that I need to embed the codes of the scripts in the Rmarkdown file without running it.

To summarize:

I tried this chunk with no success:

```{r eval=F}
source("script1.R")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 556

Answers (1)

Ian Campbell
Ian Campbell

Reputation: 24888

One option would be to readLines on the script instead of sourcing it.

Consider this trivial R script:

writeLines("foo <- function(x) x + 2", con = "foo.R")
system("cat foo.R")
# foo <- function(x) x + 2

Instead of using source use readLines.

exp <- readLines("foo.R")

Now you have the text of the Rscript. You could use cat to print it.

cat(exp)
#foo <- function(x) x + 2

Or you could evaluate it.

eval(parse(text=exp))
foo(2)
#[1] 4

Upvotes: 2

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