knitr (R) - how not to embed images in the HTML file?

Question

This is probably very easy but I can\'t seem to find it in docs. I would like to not embed the generated images in the HTML file itself.

So basically I want knit2htm

Answer 1

Its not knitr that does this, knitr just produces a modified markdown file after running the R chunks. So you need to look at the help for the markdown package to figure out...

Its the base64_images option. Coffee hasn't kicked in yet, so I haven't exactly sussed out how to set/reset individual markdown options, but clearing them all out works for me:

 > knit2html("foo.Rmd",options="")

producing

in foo.html.

If clearing all those options breaks other stuff, then read up on markdownHTMLOptions.