Is there a way to get the plain text output in RMarkdown?

[ArthurAndrews]

It seems that skim understands when it's called from within an RMarkdown chunk and uses a different print method with kable. This looks great in the document/notebook, but it's harder to read in the RStudio IDE. Sometimes I would prefer to see the output from the print method that's used in the console in the chunk. Is there any way to do this? Thanks for the great package!

I tried the suggested method with chunk options normal_print from the vignette, but it didn't work for me.

[elinw]

That would definitely be a helpful feature, something like print.skimr.console ... I don't see an obvious way to do this at the moment but perhaps @michaelquinn32 will have an idea.

[michaelquinn32]

Hi Arthur!

Glad you like the package.

Set options(paged.print = FALSE) to get the original output.

You can also disable it using paged.print=FALSE as a chunk option.

Either way, we could probably do more to improve paged output in notebooks. I'll start another issue for that.

Best wishes, Michael

[ArthurAndrews]

This is a great solution. I'll be using this often. Thank you very much!

[ArthurAndrews]

The paged.print = FALSE chunk setting is respected by the RStudio IDE and html_notebook output, but is ignored when I knit to html_document. It will still print a kable html table. Any ideas?

[michaelquinn32]

Sorry about that issue Arthur. This looks like you're running into:

• https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/964
• https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/1626

I think the easiest issue is to switch from html_notebook to html_document if you need more control of the rendered output. Your original option render = knitr::normal_print seems to be WAI.

Best wishes, Michael