My code will run as a chunk but gives me an error when I try to knit

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Hi I'm new to R and I'm using RStudio Cloud for a university stats course.

The code I'm having trouble with will run as a chunk but when I try to knit the project it comes up with an error saying that the object 'filename' not found.

The 'filename' is listed in the global environment but it is a tbl_df, which I'm thinking is not the right kind of object for knitting.

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The knit button in Rstudio creates a new environment to do the knit — anotherfred, Nov 19 '19 at 13:18
Possible duplicate of [How to use objects from global environment in Rstudio Markdown](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34029611/how-to-use-objects-from-global-environment-in-rstudio-markdown) — anotherfred, Nov 19 '19 at 13:18
I read that thread and found that the suggested changes to the R Markdown Global environment settings was set to document in my project. — Pamela Osborne, Nov 19 '19 at 13:55

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '19 at 14:17

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It is difficult to answer without having all the code. And code is almost always better than a screenshot.

My guess is that you loaded the dataset X2019THBrier manually in RStudio. Thus you can access it in chunks, in the current R session, but not in the knitted R session.

You need to write commands to load the data. As you are loading an XLSX file, you might want to install the openxlsx package, and use the openxlsx::read.xlsx() command.

answered Nov 19 '19 at 14:17

Ewen

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Tried as you suggested and now the error is a parse error (not that I have any idea what that means). – Pamela Osborne Nov 19 '19 at 17:34

My code will run as a chunk but gives me an error when I try to knit

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