Dear Heinz, Yes. The idea of the post_processor() is that 1) pandoc converts the .md to .tex 2) the post_processors changes the .tex 3) the .tex is compiled into .pdf Hence the post_processors need to read, change and overwrite the tex output file.
Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey 2017-09-07 9:08 GMT+02:00 Heinz Tuechler <tuech...@gmx.at>: > Are you sure that you want to read in the output_file in > > text <- readLines(output_file, warn = FALSE)? > > best regards, > > Heinz > > > Thierry Onkelinx wrote/hat geschrieben on/am 06.09.2017 11:41: > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm trying to write a post_processor() for a custom rmarkdown format. The >> goal of the post_processor() is to modify the latex file before it is >> compiled. For some reason the post_processor() is not run. The >> post_processor() does work when I run it manually on the tex file. >> >> Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong? Below is the relevant snippet of >> the code. The full code is available at >> https://github.com/inbo/INBOmd/blob/post_processor/R/rsos_article.R >> https://github.com/inbo/INBOmd/blob/post_processor/inst/ >> rmarkdown/templates/rsos_article/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd >> is an Rmd is a MWE that fails compile because the post_processor() is not >> run. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Thierry >> >> post_processor <- function( >> metadata, input_file, output_file, clean, verbose >> ) { >> text <- readLines(output_file, warn = FALSE) >> >> # set correct text in fmtext environment >> end_first_page <- grep("\\\\EndFirstPage", text) #nolint >> if (length(end_first_page) == 1) { >> maketitle <- grep("\\\\maketitle", text) #nolint >> text <- c( >> text[1:(maketitle - 1)], >> "\\begin{fmtext}", >> text[(maketitle + 1):(end_first_page - 1)], >> "\\end{fmtext}", >> "\\maketitle", >> text[(end_first_page + 1):length(text)] >> ) >> writeLines(enc2utf8(text), output_file, useBytes = TRUE) >> } >> output_file >> } >> >> output_format( >> knitr = knitr_options( >> opts_knit = list( >> width = 60, >> concordance = TRUE >> ), >> opts_chunk = opts_chunk, >> knit_hooks = knit_hooks >> ), >> pandoc = pandoc_options( >> to = "latex", >> latex_engine = "xelatex", >> args = args, >> keep_tex = keep_tex >> ), >> post_processor = post_processor, >> clean_supporting = !keep_tex >> ) >> >> >> >> ir. Thierry Onkelinx >> Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and >> Forest >> team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance >> Kliniekstraat 25 >> 1070 Anderlecht >> Belgium >> >> To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more >> than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to >> say >> what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher >> The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner >> The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not >> ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of >> data. >> ~ John Tukey >> >> [[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/posti >> ng-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > -- > Heinz Tüchler +436605653878 > > ______________________________________________ > 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/posti > ng-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[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.
