PDFs not created automatically?

[PavelBal]

Running a workflow.R I only get md and docx as outputs, but no PDFs. Is it by design, or do I have to enable PDF generation somewhere?

[pchelle]

We did not implement the PDF conversion of the final report @Yuri05 , is the feature required ?

So far 2 solutions:

• the docx can be exported manually as pdf, the rendered document will use the same rendering as the docx.
• md can be converted into pdf, however you may lose some features compared to md, html or docx (such as bookmarks)

  there are different ways, the simplest I found is the one I describe below

[!TIP] Convert your md document into pdf using rmarkdown::render() This is the simplest and easiest way, however there is a trick as rmarkdown converts from Rmd files First, copy your file and provide a Rmd extension, then simply render the Rmd into pdf

file.copy(from = "Report.md", to = "Report.Rmd")
rmarkdown::render(input = "Report.Rmd", output_file = "Report.pdf")

[!IMPORTANT] If not installed, you may require a pdf engine converting the intermediate LateX report into pdf. In the code below, you can install {tinytex} that will install it for you

install.packages("tinytex")
tinytex::install_tinytex()

[PavelBal]

Okay, thanks. I am converting using the Markdown add in in Visual Studio Code. Just was not sure if this is not supported or I forgot to enable it somewhere.

Please close the issue if this feature is not required.