Yihui Xie

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Allow `output_file` to be a function in `render()` [FR]

That sounds like a reasonable feature request, and is indeed a common request, too. I agree that defining a new output format is too much only for this purpose. I...

Allow `output_file` to be a function in `render()` [FR]

Oh that sounds indeed much trickier than I thought... I didn't think much of the case in which inline R expressions are present in YAML. In the past, we have...

cannot exclude files/folders in subdirectories in _site.yml

@friendly No, we haven't got a chance to look at this issue. If you use blogdown, you will be able to exclude any files/dirs.

`rmarkdown::render` does not respect symlinks

My guess is we called `normalizePath()` somewhere in `render()` to resolve the symlink. I don't have time to dig into it. Sorry.

pre-rendered Shiny Rmd documents should have a cache invalidation mechanism

It was probably due to c5fa1ee84115905b84fad42d2152f05ffc34a085. I'm not sure. But I guess once the html file is regenerated, things will become stable again from rmarkdown 1.9. For the highlight.js dependency,...

Display R notebooks on github

Hi @bkeepers, we just want to check again if there is a chance to support R Notebooks on Github, since many users have expressed interest in it. Thanks!

Display R notebooks on github

Unfortunately, no. We contacted Github Support (twice, I think, in 2018 and 2019), and there has not been any update yet.

Activate graphics for Pandoc also for custom template when `md` source contains only LaTeX figures.

I'm okay with always activating it, regardless of the template.

r in-line expression evaluated even in quoted context with double backtick

@kortschak This is expected. See https://yihui.name/en/2017/11/knitr-verbatim-code-chunk/.

r in-line expression evaluated even in quoted context with double backtick

As I mentioned in the end of the post, I don't like the hacks myself, but it is unlikely that this will ever change in the future because it is...