How do I put Bookdown chapters in a subdirectory?

Question

I can't figure put how to make a book with Rmd files in a subdirectory.

Here's my current directory structure:

What should go in _bookdown.yml and in index.RMD to make this work?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '17 at 23:51

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It turns out that you just have to specify the directory of each RMD in _bookdown.yml:

rmd_files: ["index.Rmd", "chapters/chapt1.RMD", "chapters/chapt2.RMD"]

answered Jul 07 '17 at 23:51

sharoz

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That is right. And there is a feature request to make it easier: https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown/issues/242 but I don't have time to think about or implement it. – Yihui Xie Jul 08 '17 at 02:28
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Thanks @Yihui. I figured out why I was originally confused. This approach does not work when `new_session: yes`. – sharoz Jul 08 '17 at 22:55
@sharoz this is explained in the [book chapter on two rendering approaches](https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/new-session.html) "We call these two approaches “Merge and Knit” (M-K) and “Knit and Merge” (K-M), respectively." "K-M does not allow Rmd files to be in subdirectories, but M-K does." – Paul Rougieux Feb 09 '21 at 17:03

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