Render R plots into markdown for Pandoc/Hakyll

Question

How to integrate R code in markdown and then insert the plots in the rendered document?

I use the blogging engine Hakyll (http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/). It uses Pandoc as a back-end for rendering blog posts written in markdown.

Answer 1

There's even a special markdown flavor named R-markdown. It can be rendered to plain markdown using the knitr package.

Apparently the link provided directs to a page about R-markdown V2 which has its own package rmarkdown.

Answer 2

For the moment I write my blog post in Rmarkdown, and transform it in plain markdown with:

Rscript -e "library(knitr); knit('myPost.Rmd')

Then Hakyll can process it. More details here: http://www.corentindupont.info/blog/posts/Programming/2014-12-10-This-Blog.html. I would be glad to know if this command can be integrated directly into Hakyll.

Answer 3

FYI I published a package that allows to compile Rmd posts in Hakyll: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hakyll-R