View research website locally.

wflow_view displays the website locally in your browser or the RStudio Viewer pane.

wflow_view(files = NULL, recent = FALSE, dry_run = FALSE, project = ".")

Arguments

files	character (default: NULL). Name(s) of the specific file(s) to view. These can be either the name(s) of the R Markdown file(s) in the analysis directory or the HTML file(s) in the docs directory. Also, the full path(s) to the file(s) can be input or just the basename(s) of the file(s). Supports file globbing.
recent	logical (default: FALSE). If files = NULL, display the HTML file with the most recent modification time. If files = NULL and recent = FALSE, then index.html is viewed.
dry_run	logical (default: FALSE). Do not actually view file(s). Mainly useful for testing.
project	character (default: ".") By default the function assumes the current working directory is within the project. If this is not true, you'll need to provide the path to the project directory.

Value

Invisibly returns a character vector of the relative paths to the HTML files to be viewed.

Details

wflow_view by default displays the file index.html. To view the most recently modified HTML file, set recent = TRUE. To specify which file(s) to view, specify either the name(s) of the R Markdown or HTML file(s). The path(s) to the file(s) will be discarded, thus only HTML files in docs directory can be viewed with this function. wflow_view uses browseURL to view the HTML files in the browser. If you wish to do something non-traditional like view an HTML file that is not in the docs directory or not part of a workflowr project, you can use that function directly.

If wflow_view is run in the RStudio IDE and only one file has been requested to be viewed, the file is displayed in the RStudio Viewer.

See also

browseURL

Examples

not_run({

  # View index.html
  wflow_view()

  # View the most recently modified HTML file
  wflow_view(recent = TRUE)

  # View a file by specifying the R Markdown file
  # (the following two are equivalent)
  wflow_view("fname.Rmd")
  wflow_view("analysis/fname.Rmd")

  # View a file by specifying the HTML file
  # (the following two are equivalent)
  wflow_view("fname.html")
  wflow_view("docs/fname.html")

  # View multiple files
  wflow_view(c("fname1.Rmd", "fname2.Rmd"))
})