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How to *not* render rmarkdown (.Rmd) files on Shiny Server

I have a rather stupid simple question but my Google searching has come up empty: I have some Rmarkdown files on a shiny server which I've compiled into .html. How do I tell shiny server to not render the .Rmd files into .html?

So, if I have something like this in my directory, I want shiny server to use the .html file directly.

index.html # use this
index.Rmd  # Oh, index.html already exists. Don't recompile index.Rmd

For now, I've gone ahead and just placed the .Rmd files in a subdirectory so the server only sees the .html files when it's in the main directory but I'm wondering if there's a simpler way.

Solution

  • Sorry, yeah. We pick up any /\.rmd$/i file as the file you really wanted to show your users. You'd have to give it another extension (index.rmd.notreally or index.rmark) to get around that. Or put it in a subdirectory as you've already discovered.

    Sorry about that. I'll jot that down as a feature request.