Objective
I'm creating a Word document using RMarkdown and I want to use a reference_docx file to apply some formatting. In addition, I'd like to use R code to specify the location of the reference_docx file inside the RMarkdown document's YAML header.
Here's a very simple example of what that would look like:
---
title: "RMD_Example"
output:
word_document:
reference_docx: "`r print('my_styles_file.docx')`"
---
# Introduction
Four score and seven years ago...
This would be meant to achieve the same thing as the following YAML:
---
title: "RMD_Example"
output:
word_document:
reference_docx: my_styles_file.docx
---
# Introduction
Four score and seven years ago...
The Problem
The version of this YAML without the R code works fine. However, when I try to render this document (my_rmd_file.rmd) with R code in the YAML, I get the following error message:
"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m
-RTS my_rmd_file.utf8.md
--to docx
--from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash+smart
--output DELETEME.docx --highlight-style tango
--reference-doc "`r print('my_styles_file.docx')`"
output file: my_rmd_file.knit.md
pandoc.exe: `r print('my_styles_file.docx')`:
BinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 1
Execution halted
My best guess of why this isn't working is that RMarkdown isn't running the R code inside the YAML header, and that's why you see the following line in the error message:
--reference-doc "`r print('my_styles_file.docx')`"
