On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: [...]
> I wouldn't want R builds to depend on GitHub, so this sounds more > interesting. I took a look at that website, and it looks problematic to > me: the parser appears to be written in Javascript, and the install > instructions (using "npm" and "bower", whatever those are) depend on > some unstated prerequisites. In principle there's no reason not to > allow R builds to depend on these things, but adding a dependency like > that implies so much testing that I can't imagine anyone who could do it > would want to. > markdown-it is already in an R package, so all you need is devtools::install_github("jeroenooms/markdownit") to try it. Actually an even better alternative is 'sundown' ( https://github.com/vmg/sundown), which already has R bindings, in the 'markdown' package. I should have suggested this in the first place, sorry for missing it. [...] Gabor [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel