I read somewhere that it was possible to run a learnr Rmarkdown document via an URL.
I wanted to test this functionality, and made a document that I can download:
> download.file('http://hub-courses.pages.pasteur.fr/R_pasteur_practice/test.Rmd', destfile = "/tmp/test.Rmd")
trying URL 'http://hub-courses.pages.pasteur.fr/R_pasteur_practice/test.Rmd'
Content type 'text/plain; charset=utf-8' length 4896 bytes
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downloaded 4896 bytes
However, when I pass the same URL to rmarkdown::run, I get a message saying that the directory does not exist:
> rmarkdown::run('http://hub-courses.pages.pasteur.fr/R_pasteur_practice/test.Rmd')
Error in rmarkdown::run("http://hub-courses.pages.pasteur.fr/R_pasteur_practice/test.Rmd") :
The directory 'http://hub-courses.pages.pasteur.fr/R_pasteur_practice' does not exist
In addition: Warning message:
In normalizePath(path, winslash = winslash, mustWork = mustWork) :
path[1]="http://hub-courses.pages.pasteur.fr/R_pasteur_practice": No such file or directory
Here are some info about my rmarkdown settings:
> devtools::session_info('rmarkdown')
─ Session info ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
setting value
version R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
os Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
system x86_64, linux-gnu
ui RStudio
language en:en_US:fr_FR
collate en_US.UTF-8
ctype en_US.UTF-8
tz :/etc/localtime
date 2020-03-02
─ Packages ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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stringi 1.4.6 2020-02-17 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1)
stringr 1.4.0 2019-02-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
tinytex 0.20 2020-02-25 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1)
xfun 0.12 2020-01-13 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1)
yaml 2.2.1 2020-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 3.6.1)
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[2] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
[3] /usr/lib/R/site-library
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