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Post-processing R Markdown-generated html files

Is there a way to automatically apply some post-processing to html files generated from R Markdown?

For example, if we use MathJax to render LaTeX code (primarily in RStudio), the resulting html file includes src= links to load MathJax from a CDN. The problem is, we also need to be able to display these files on internal network without internet access, and those links need to be replaced to point to a local copy of MathJax.

It would be convenient if there was some hook that I could use to do that after the html file is generated, but I haven't been able to find any.

Solution

  • If your post processing is specifically about MathJax, you might consider setting your output yaml to the following which will download local copies of libraries such as MathJax and link to them.

    output: 
  html_document:
    self_contained: FALSE
    mathjax: local