[R] rmarkdown and source call to R file.

[Georgios]

Thanks all of you for your answers. 
I managed to solve it after all. I was looking at the wrong place. It
was an argument on the server.R.

On Fri, 2021-01-22 at 09:17 -0600, Yihui Xie wrote:
> I don't know the answer (there are multiple possible reasons for the
> file not being found), but as the first step to debug the problem,
> you
> may replace this chunk
> 
> ```{r, echo=FALSE}
>    library(knitr)
>    source("helper.R", local = knitr::knit_global())
>    summarized_table<-give_table(params$ldf_summary)
>    kable(summarized_table,"simple")
> ```
> 
> with
> 
> ```{r}
> getwd()
> list.files()
> ```
> 
> and see what the working directory is, and which files are available.
> 
> Regards,
> Yihui
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 1:02 AM Georgios via R-help
> <r-help using r-project.org> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I'm new in R and this list.
> > I made a shiny app using R studio.
> > my files are:
> >    -server.R
> >    -ui.R
> >    -helper.R
> >    -Report.Rmd.
> > 
> > All the files are on the same directory and helper.R is a file that
> > contains a lot of functions used in Report.Rmd and server.R
> > 
> > for some reason I cant call from Report.Rmd the file helper.R
> > 
> > My code in Report.Rmd is
> > 
> >    ## Summarize table
> >    ```{r, echo=FALSE}
> >    library(knitr)
> >    source("helper.R", local = knitr::knit_global())
> >    summarized_table<-give_table(params$ldf_summary)
> >    kable(summarized_table,"simple")
> >    ```
> > If I use absolute path it works but since I want to upload it to
> > https://www.shinyapps.io/ I must make it work with relative path.
> > 
> > The message I get is:
> > 
> >    processing file: Report.Rmd
> > 
> >    |..........................
> >                                         |  25%
> >      ordinary text without R code
> > 
> > 
> >    |....................................................
> >                                         |  50%
> >    label: unnamed-chunk-1 (with options)
> >    List of 1
> >     $ echo: logi FALSE
> > 
> >    Quitting from lines 13-17 (Report.Rmd)
> > 
> >    Warning: Error in file: cannot open the connection
> >      [No stack trace available]
> > 
> > 
> > The funny thing is that if I put the cursor inside "" at the
> > beginning
> > and I press tab I get the option to choose helper.R. So Im guessing
> > that I'm on the right directory.
> > Any ideas what I'm missing?
> > 
> > I'm stuck on this lines of code 2 days now.
> > I would really appreciate
> > any ideas.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your help!!!
> > 
> > 
> > ps. I tried all the combinations in Tools->Global Options->
> > "Evaluate
> > chunks in directory" with no luck.
> > 
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