How to produce both .html and .md from an .Rmd (Rmarkdown) and rename them?

Question

I know making .Rmd produce .html file or .md file should use the following codes

---
title: "report"
output: html_document
---

or

---
title: "report"
output: md_document
---

But how to produce the two at the same time? I try the following, but it is not working

---
title: "report"
output: html_document, md_document
---

Another issue is that, how can I make the name of the .html file (or .md file) produced different from the .Rmd file? For example, I have sample.Rmd, but I want the .md file to be named as sample_1.md.

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 05 '17 at 11:03

17

You can use keep_md: yes to keep the md file while still getting other output. So the YAML will be something like

---
title: "report"
author: "me"
date: '2016-04-25'
output:
  html_document:
    keep_md: yes
---

answered Jan 05 '17 at 11:03

Richard Telford

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How about the names? Can I modify it somehow? – Ding Li Jan 05 '17 at 11:09
I don't think you can change the output filenames with YAML. So foo.Rmd will give foo.html and foo.md – Richard Telford Jan 05 '17 at 11:14
Please refer here for changing the doc name `http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28500096/r-markdown-variable-output-name` – Hardik Gupta Jan 05 '17 at 11:19
Future user: be careful with spaces vs tabs. Don't mix them! – Paul Apr 30 '19 at 03:35

How to produce both .html and .md from an .Rmd (Rmarkdown) and rename them?

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