Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Q&A

Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Comments on Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio

Post

Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio

+1
−0

If ones uses RStudio to convert a rmarkdown file to pdf, RStudio will call pandoc with arguments like this:

/opt/homebrew/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS Untitled.knit.md --to beamer --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output Untitled.tex --lua-filter /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/rmarkdown/rmarkdown/lua/pagebreak.lua --lua-filter /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/rmarkdown/rmarkdown/lua/latex-div.lua --highlight-style tango --pdf-engine pdflatex --embed-resources --standalone

Is there an environment variable or setting which can be used to add the --verbose option to this call?

I'm aware that one can set pandoc arguments within the yaml header of a rmarkdown file, but I'm looking for a way to automatically invoke the verbose option for all files.


RStudio version: 2021.09.0+351

History
Why does this post require attention from curators or moderators?
You might want to add some details to your flag.
Why should this post be closed?

1 comment thread

Does rstudio invoke pandoc using an absolute path? (2 comments)
Does rstudio invoke pandoc using an absolute path?
Canina‭ wrote almost 2 years ago

Building slightly on Olin Lathrop's suggestion, does rstudio actually invoke pandoc using an absolute path? I'm thinking that if it doesn't, you could put a small script in some directory that occurs before /opt/homebrew/bin in your $PATH. On the other hand, if it does, consider from where it gets the full path. Maybe that can be configured? (It doesn't sound like you are trying to make a change that would break anything if it isn't applied on invocation.)

samcarter‭ wrote almost 2 years ago

Canina‭ Nice idea! As far as I can tell Rstudio uses an absolute path, but it turns out this path can be customised in .Rprofile via Sys.setenv(RSTUDIO_PANDOC="/path/to/some/folder/"), so I could point it to a wrapper script which adds the verbose option to the call. If you would like to write an answer, I'd be happy to mark it as "Works for me"!