Will there be anything wrong if you do not set these options? Regards, Yihui -- https://yihui.name
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:24 AM, <g.maub...@weinwolf.de> wrote: > Hi Yihui, > Hi Duncan, > > I corrected my typo. Unfortunately knitr did not find my plots in the > directory where they reside which is different from the Rmd document. > > The documentation of knitr says: > > base.dir: (NULL) an absolute directory under which the plots are generate > root.dir: (NULL) the root directory when evaluating code chunks; if NULL, > the directory of the input document will be used > > From that description I thought, if the base.dir can be used for writng > plots, it is then also used for reading plots if set? No, it is not. > If I set the root directory to the plots/graphics directory will knitr > then find my plots? No, it does not. > > Reading blog posts my thoughts looked not so strange to me, e.g. > https://philmikejones.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/set-root-directory-knitr/. > Unfortunately, it does not work for me. > > I am using a RStudio project file. Could it be that this interferes which > the knitr options? > > I tried the solution that Duncan suggested: > > c_path_plots <- > "H:/2017/Analysen/Kundenzufriedenheit/Auswertung/results/graphics > > `r knitr::include_graphics(file.path(c_path_plots, > "email_distribution_pie.png"))` > > This solution works fine. I will go with it for this project as I have to > finish my report soon. > > I read Hadley's book on bulding R Packages ( > https://www.amazon.de/R-Packages-Hadley-Wickham/dp/1491910593) and found > it quite complicated and time consuming to build one. Thus I did not try > yet to build my own packages. At the end of last week I heard from another > library (http://reaktanz.de/R/pckg/roxyPackage/) which shall make building > packages much easier. I plan to try that shortly. > > On my path to become better in analytics using R, I will try to use > modules of Rmd files which can then easily be integrated into a Rmd > report. I have yet to see how I can include these file into a complete > report. > > Kind regards > > Georg > > > ----- Weitergeleitet von Georg Maubach/WWBO/WW/HAW am 12.06.2017 08:47 > ----- > > Von: Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> > An: g.maub...@gmx.de, > Kopie: R Help <r-help@r-project.org> > Datum: 09.06.2017 20:53 > Betreff: Re: [R] Paths in knitr > Gesendet von: "R-help" <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> > > > > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
