Live preview of R script rendered by render/spin

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When writing a .Rmd document, I can achieve a live preview by checking the 'Source on save' option, and by selecting 'Preview in viewer pane' in the options in the taskbar above the document.

However, I prefer to write .R scripts using roxygen comments, and use rmarkdown::render to
generate the output (I think it is calling knitr::spin in the background). Is there any way I can have a live preview of the html output or render, generated by an .R file, in the viewer pane, that updates as soon as I save the document (using source on save)?

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I don't think source on save calling spin and not source() is implemented from an R file :thinking:

Probably a feature request for the RStudio IDE - this would require a way / detection to switch usual source() for an R file to another function.

Did you check if this was something already asked on RStudio IDE github repo ?

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