Idyll RunScripts plugin

The purpose of this plugin is to enable you to embed scripts in your Idyll markup that run at compile time.

For example, this Idyll markup runs R code to generate an inline chart in the idyll output:

# Introduction

```exec:rstats
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(airquality, aes(Temp, Ozone)) +
        geom_point() +
        geom_smooth(method = "loess", se = FALSE)
```

At this point in time consider this plugin experimental. It is very rudimentary and is primarily meant to serve as a proof of concept to see if people are interested in this functionality. If they are we can expand on it.

Installation

$ npm install --save-dev idyll-plugin-runscripts

Add it to your idyll configuration in package.json:

"idyll": {
  "compiler": {
    "postProcessors": ["idyll-plugin-runscripts"]
  }
}

Supported languages

At the moment we only support R, but others could be added in the future.

R

The R support assumes that you will be creating some sort of graphical output using the default built-in graphics device.

In order for this to work, you need to make sure the Rscript binary is available on your system and that you are creating one plot per code cell, not using any custom filenames.