Templates don't work when using rmarkdown::render

[robjhyndman]

Templates don't work when using rmarkdown::render

[robjhyndman]

Clicking the knit button in Rstudio will actually just generate the command

rmarkdown::render('file.Rmd', encoding = 'UTF-8')

so perhaps there is something wrong with the render() command you are using. You can see what knitr is using by looking at the Rmarkdown tab in Rstudio. In the latest version of Rstudio, you need to turn this on in the Global Options under Rmarkdown/Advanced then check "Display render command".

I would also make sure you update -- you're using a relatively old version of R.

It is also worth testing it on a very simple example such as the following one.

---
title: Note to self
author: Marie Curie
output: MonashEBSTemplates::memo
---

Testing

[farhadsalimi]

Thanks so much for your quick reponse Rob.
The issue was the output_format = "pdf_document" in the render function, I removed that and it's all good. I should stop copying and pasting my old code :)
I plan to update R for a long time now but I am always in the middle of a big project and am scared of code breaks. We will do it soon though!
I work at the Monash Registry Science Unit and have adopted your templates for our reports, thanks for making this package available to everyone!