How to keep temporary _main.Rmd file in bookdown (when there is no error)

Question

I am building a PDF from several RMarkdown files using Bookdown in Rstudio. In the process, Bookdown first compiles the different Rmd files into one big Rmd file (_main.Rmd), and then knits it into a PDF. If no errors are thrown, this temporary _main.Rmd file is usually deleted. I would like to keep the _main.Rmd file even when the file has successfully knitted into a PDF.

Is there any option I can add to _bookdown.yml to achieve this?

Answer 1

I just added this feature in the development version of bookdown , you may try:

remotes::install_github('rstudio/bookdown')

and set delete_merged_file: false in the config file _bookdown.yml .