knitr: child document in different directory

Question

I can use the following code for child document if it is in the same directory.

<<child-demo, child=knitr-input-child.Rnw, eval=TRUE>>=
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I wonder how to use child document if it is not in the same directory of master document. Thanks in advance for your help and time.

Answer 1

This can be considered as a bug. Now I have fixed it on GitHub. Note, however, you need to setwd() to the directory of your master document before using knit(), otherwise knit() may not be able to find a child inputdir/child.Rnw. Please see if the development version works for you. Thanks!