I'd say it is an expert-only option. If you do not understand what it means, I strongly recommend you not to set it.
Similarly, you set the root_dir option and I don't know why you did it, but it is a typo anyway (should be root.dir). Regards, Yihui -- https://yihui.name On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 4:50 AM, <g.maub...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Yi, > > many thanks for your reply. > > Why I do have to se the base.dir option? Cause, to me it is not clear from > the documentation, where knitr looks for data files and how I can adjust > knitr to tell it where to look. base.dir was a try, but did not work. > > Can you give me a hint where I can find information/documentation on this > path issue? > > Kind regards > > Georg > > > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 08. Juni 2017 um 15:05 Uhr > > Von: "Yihui Xie" <x...@yihui.name> > > An: g.maub...@weinwolf.de > > Cc: "R Help" <r-help@r-project.org> > > Betreff: Re: [R] Paths in knitr > > > > Why do you have to set the base.dir option? > > > > Regards, > > Yihui > > -- > > https://yihui.name > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 6:15 AM, <g.maub...@weinwolf.de> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have to compile a report for the management and decided to use > RMarkdown > > > and knitr. I compiled all needed plots (using separate R scripts) > before > > > compiling the report, thus all plots reside in my graphics directory. > The > > > RMarkdown report needs to access these files. I have defined > > > > > > ```{r setup, include = FALSE} > > > knitr::opts_knit$set( > > > echo = FALSE, > > > xtable.type = "html", > > > base.dir = "H:/2017/Analysen/Kundenzufriedenheit/Auswertung", > > > root_dir = "H:/2017/Analysen/Kundenzufriedenheit/Auswertung", > > > fig.path = "results/graphics") # relative path required, see > > > http://yihui.name/knitr/options > > > ``` > > > > > > and then referenced my plot using > > > > > > <img src = "email_distribution_pie.png"></img> > > > > > > because I want to be able to customize the plotting attributes. > > > > > > But that fails with the message "pandoc.exe: Could not fetch > > > email_distribution_pie.png". > > > > > > If I give it the absolute path > > > "H:/2017/Analysen/Kundenzufriedenheit/Auswertung/results/ > graphics/email_distribution_pie.png" > > > it works fine as well if I copy the plot into the directory where the > > > report.RMD file resides. > > > > > > How can I tell knitr to fetch the ready-made plots from the graphics > > > directory? > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > > > Georg > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
