How can I run all chunks *across all documents* in a bookdown project?

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I sometimes like to run all chunks across all files of some rmarkdown project (here: bookdown, but I guess other multi-*.rmd-projects are similar), so I can inspect the objects in my Global Environment as they would be created when the project gets rendered.

For individual *.rmd this is implemented in RStudio; I can just click "Run All".

But when there are several (a lot) of files, this gets cumbersome and error-prone quickly. I also feel a little stupid because (when using bookdown) the .bookdown.yml already specifies order and inclusion of files.

I'm probably being very dense, but I can't figure out an easy way to do this.

(I'm aware that I could knitr::purl() my way to this result, but then I'd have to manually supply all the filenames in order and source the resulting file).

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Did you ever get any feedback on this question? I'm looking for a knitr::purl()-like way for extracting source code from a bookdown project into a single R script to be used for interactive learning.

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I don't believe I did, no. Just worked around it.

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I'm considering opening an issue on the GitHub repo. Haven't seen one similar to this there. Have you asked this question on SO before? If not, I may go there first.

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hehe, no, I also didn't SO this, because I couldn't think of a clear reprex.
I also wondered about a gh issue earlier today. Which repo should it go to? RStudio IDE or knitr?

Let's report back here about our progress; will +1 your issue.