Tag: knitr

Iteratively Populating Templated Sentences With Inline R in knitr/Rmd

As part of the Wrangling F1 Data With R project, I want to be able to generate sentences iteratively from a templated base.

The following recipe works for sentences included in an external file:

reusableCOdeinRmd

What I’d really like to be able to do is put the Rmd template into a chunk something like this…:

```{rmd stintPara, eval=FALSE, echo=FALSE}
`r name` completed `r sum(abs(stints[stints['name']==name,]['l']))` laps over `r nrow(stints[stints['name']==name,])` stints, with a longest run of `r max(abs(stints[stints['name']==name,]['l']))` laps.
```

and then do something like:

```{r results='asis'}
stints['name']=factor(stints$name)
for (name in levels(stints$name)){
  cat(paste0(knit_child('stintPara',quiet=TRUE),'\n\n'))
}
```

Is anything like that possible?

PS via the knitr Google Group, h/t Jeff Newmiller for pointing me to the knit_child() text argument…

rmd_template2