RStudio Knit - explicit R command for Preview option after Rmd is knit

[jcblum]

If you’re going spelunking in the RStudio source code, this overview of how the parts fit together might be helpful:

How to learn more about how RStudio works

Are you trying to achieve something specific? Or are you just curious about how things work? We should really have some better docs on the repo's wiki page showing what the major portions are and how they fit together. Here's a quick overview to help you start exploring: RStudio is basically a client/server app. The client is a Web app written using GWT. You'll see lots of Java in the repo; it's all transpiled to JavaScript. The server is all C++, and makes heavy use of asynchronous and functional utilities supplied by Boost. All of the communication between the client and server occurs via JSON-RPC. If you go to Help | Diagnostics | Request Log you'll see a neat visualization of the cha…

The Viewer pane info @mara linked to is also on the nascent RStudio Extensions site, along with RStudio API documentation (such as it is thus far):

• RStudio Viewer
• View local web content within RStudio — viewer • rstudioapi