I understand I'm late to the party as I have not updated RStudio for a long time. Now I realise that Sumatra PDF viewer is not part of the current RStudio setup anymore for viewing PDFs generated from RMarkdown knitting. I found that people talked about it here and there but haven't seen any solution. Indeed I understood that by default, RStudio wouldn't open the PDFs at all, which irritates me a lot.
So,
- I want to continue viewing RMarkdown knitted PDFs in Sumatra
- immediatly & automatically opened after rendering
- without changing my system default PDF reader (I need that to be Acrobat)
Actually, I wouldn't mind it to be another PDF viewer, however, I really loved the features of Sumatra:
- not requiring to close files before re-rendering
- displaying changes in real-time when rendering
- multiple tabs possible when working on multiple RMarkdown files
As far as I see, the RStudio viewer cannot offer this behavior (no real-time view), and neither can Acrobat (would have to close file before re-rendering).
How have people adapted? This can't be just me.
(Or is this merely a sign of people using Sweave instead? Haven't tried it, but understood it allows for some synctex stuff...)