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

Here is a simple way to have figures in a separate html file, which will reduce its size significantly.

Add this chunk in the beginning of the *.rmd file:

```{r global_options, include=FALSE}
#suppress the warnings and other messages from showing in the knitted file.
knitr::opts_chunk$set(fig.width=8, fig.height=6, fig.path='Figs/',
                      echo=TRUE, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE)
```

Option 'fig.path' tells R to save pictures into 'Figs' folder. The rest of options is not required for the task.

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