Create .rmd file without output

Question

I have main .rmd file, that does nothing except calls two rmarkdown::render() functions to create file1 and file2. It does it great, however it opens up .pdf reader with empty file as there are no results or reports provided from main. How to turn it off from popping up, when I press Knit button? Best case would be to prevent it from creating main.pdf and pop-up.

```{r SuperChunck, echo = FALSE, include = FALSE}
    rmarkdown::render(input = "F:/file1.Rmd", encoding = "UTF-8",
              output_file =  paste0("file1, ".pdf"), 
              output_dir = PathResult)
    rmarkdown::render(input = "F:/file2.Rmd", encoding = "UTF-8",
              output_file =  paste0("file2, ".pdf"), 
              output_dir = PathResult)
```

Why not put the rmarkdown::render commands in an R script, and execute like that? — novica

dario dario · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-10T12:19:34

If I understand your question correctly you are kniting the main .Rmd file which contains the code you are showing in the question? If there is no report produced by the code in the main .Rmd file, then there is no reason to have it as a .Rmd file. Put the code above in a 'normal' .R script (of course without the

```{r SuperChunck, echo = FALSE, include = FALSE}

and

```

parts) and run the script by executing it, sourcing it or calling it from a command line.

Create .rmd file without output

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