The code below will run in an .Rmd file to loop through a list and, using the element at position i
in the list, plot a figure. Each figure is plotted on a new page, so that each page only contains one figure.
Note that I added apostrophes before the triple dash to improve readability here.
---
output: word_document
---
'```{r setup, echo=FALSE, include=FALSE}
library(tidyverse)
make_df <- function(z){
tibble(X = runif(n = 10, min = z, max = z * 2), Y = runif(n = 10, min = z, max = z * 2))
}
'```
'```{r plots, results='asis', warning=FALSE, message=FALSE, echo=FALSE}
newslide <- function(options = "", heading = "", content) {
code <- deparse(substitute(content))
cat(sep = "\n",
knitr::knit_child(
quiet = TRUE,
text = knitr::knit_expand(text = c("```{r {{options}} }", "{{code}}", "```"))))
}
for (i in 1:3) {
newslide(
options = paste0("fig.width=6.5, fig.height=8.8, dpi = 600, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE, echo=FALSE"),
content = plot(make_df(i))
)
}
'```
All that works well! However, I don't just want figures, I want text, too. I need a block of nicely formattable text (eg I want to be able to set the color, font family, size, etc) to print below each figure and for it not to ## look like this
(I was able to get the contraindicated formatting by adding + cat("xyz")
in the content variable).
The text can be identical, it's just a caption that will apply to each figure, but I do want it to print and be editable, ie not part of the plot.
In the text
argument of knit_child()
, you can add code as if you were writing both inside and outside a R chunk, like this:
newslide <- function(options = "", heading = "", content) {
code <- deparse(substitute(content))
cat(sep = "\n",
knitr::knit_child(
quiet = TRUE,
#text = knitr::knit_expand(text = c("```{r {{options}} }", "{{code}}", "```"))))
text = c("### Header 3",
"```{r results = 'asis'}", #the r chunk
"#| echo: false", #options for the chunk, you can delete this if not using Quarto
code,
"```",
"",
"Text that will be below your plot, formatted with **markdown** and all")
)
)
}