Simple, plain include of a HTML snippet inside a RHTML script

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I'd like to create some .rhtml files with static HTML included on those. Think of some pages for a class with a common disclaimer included in the generated HTML files. I don't want to have to change all RHTML files with the disclaimer, therefore the idea of including a external HTML-only, no R snippet.

I've checked the answer here but it seems overly complicated for what I want.

My disclaimer looks like:

We don't need no stinking disclaimers.

and I would like to include it in the .rhtml file with something like

<!--begin.rcode echo=FALSE
knit_child('_about.Rhtml')
end.rcode-->

In the resulting .html file I get the results of evaluation of _about.Rhtml but not the contents.

One thing that works is create the HTML snippet as plain HTML and in the main .Rhtml do

<!--begin.rcode echo=FALSE,results='asis'
writeLines(readLines('_about.Rhtml'))
end.rcode-->

This works, but is there a simple/better/more flexible way?

Please advise. I am using RStudio. Thanks.

Nick Kennedy · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-21 19:32:18Z

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It's probably easiest to use the child chunk option like this:

<!--begin.rcode child="disclaimer.html"
-->

You can just call the file whatever.html rather than .rhtml.

edited Jun 21, 2015 at 19:32

answered Jun 21, 2015 at 19:15

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Rafael Santos Over a year ago

Thanks, Nick, that was much simpler!

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