how to access yaml metadata from knitr

Question

Does knitr know the value of YAML data e.g. title: or date: or some_custom_field: while it is compiling an rmarkdown doc with a YAML header?

I would like to be able to do this (pseudocode)

---
title: my title
---

The title of this document is `r knitrs_yaml_array("title")`

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 05 '15 at 04:43

16

That is stored in rmarkdown::metadata as a list of the form list(title = ...).

edited Jul 05 '15 at 04:43

baptiste

answered Jul 05 '15 at 02:29

Yihui Xie

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