1 generate_md_episodes <- function() {
5 if (require("knitr") && packageVersion("knitr") < '1.9.19')
6 stop("knitr must be version 1.9.20 or higher")
8 if (!require("stringr"))
9 stop("The package stringr is required for generating the lessons.")
11 if (require("checkpoint") && packageVersion("checkpoint") >= '0.4.0') {
13 checkpoint:::scanForPackages(project = "_episodes_rmd",
14 verbose=FALSE, use.knitr = TRUE)$pkgs
16 stop("The checkpoint package (>= 0.4.0) is required to build the lessons.")
19 missing_pkgs <- required_pkgs[!(required_pkgs %in% rownames(installed.packages()))]
21 if (length(missing_pkgs)) {
22 message("Installing missing required packages: ",
23 paste(missing_pkgs, collapse=", "))
24 install.packages(missing_pkgs)
27 ## find all the Rmd files, and generate the paths for their respective outputs
28 src_rmd <- list.files(pattern = "??-*.Rmd$", path = "_episodes_rmd", full.names = TRUE)
29 dest_md <- file.path("_episodes", gsub("Rmd$", "md", basename(src_rmd)))
31 ## knit the Rmd into markdown
32 mapply(function(x, y) {
33 knitr::knit(x, output = y)
36 # Read the generated md files and add comments advising not to edit them
37 vapply(dest_md, function(y) {
39 mdfile <- readLines(con)
40 if (mdfile[1] != "---")
41 stop("Input file does not have a valid header")
42 mdfile <- append(mdfile, "# Please do not edit this file directly; it is auto generated.", after = 1)
43 mdfile <- append(mdfile, paste("# Instead, please edit",
44 basename(y), "in _episodes_rmd/"), after = 2)
45 writeLines(mdfile, con)
47 return(paste("Warning added to YAML header of", y))
52 generate_md_episodes()