bookdown | Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown

We frequently use RMarkdown based packages to create websites with R (bookdown, blogdown, distill...) and use github-pages to serve the html files via the url username.github.io/repo.

In this approach, the ouput (i.e. html / css) files are also version controlled, and are frequently included in commits by mistake (git commit -a). This is annoying since these files clutter the commit and often lead to fictitious files conflicts.

Ideally, the outputfiles would not be version controlled at all, since the binary files (images) additionally bloat the repo. So I'm looking for a solution where:

• Git ignores the output files completely but provides an alternative (but comparable¹) method to gh-pages to serve them
• Git ignores the output files temporally and committing / pushing them to gh-pages is done in a separate, explicit command

¹: The method should be command line based and provide a nice URL to access the website

I am working on converting a tufte-LaTeX book to tufte-Bookdown using the tufte and msmbstyle packages. I have a whole bunch of sidenotes and would like the numbering to restart with each chapter so I don't reach like 400 by the end of the book.

I found this CSS code in the Bookdown GitHub for doing this with regular Bookdown, which uses footnotes/endnotes. However, my attempts to modify the code to work with sidenotes have failed. This is my current CSS addition, which just takes that code and drops in sidenote or sidenote-number (which Inspect Element suggests are the correct tags) where footnote originally was:

I am trying to use a parameterized path for a reference_docx in a Rmarkdown document with rmarkdown::word_document output format, in a similar way as e.g. is done here for the bibliography file (section Bibliograghy and Citation YAML options).

However, it seems like this feature does not work for the reference_docx option, as expressions passed to the arguments of the output format function (rmarkdown::word_document, or bookdown::word_document2 for that matter) are interpreted literally instead of evaluated. See e.g. this minimal reprex:

• Working example:

Uses:

I am looking to create unique/individual reports for a given list of vendors. The ideal output format would be a seperate html file of the given vendors information.

The issue is that I am having trouble wrapping my head around creating parameterized reports in RMarkdown. I have been taking a look at this link to understand how to loop/iterate through RMarkdown reports

To illustrate and share the logic of what I want to execute is the following:

According to the rmarkdown cookbook, using knitr::include_url should produce an inline frame of the webpage (note that it works and contains images):

But when I do the exact same thing in HTML document, I see no images in my inline frame, and I am not sure why:

In case it helps, here are some more details:

YAML for my document

I am gradually building an R Markdown (.RMD) file, learning by doing. I was able to insert a couple of tables, but I had a problem with one of them. The initial setup is:

I want to include my supervisor's name, course name etc. for my paper written in bookdown. I specifically want this information to be in different lines. So far I have tried this in the yaml:

When I knit any of the CV templates in the R package vitae I get a slightly different error for each one. I've made sure that all the files, including my Rmd file, are in the same directory and I haven't changed the template in any way. When I knit the modern CV template, for example, I get this error message: