Not only would I like my figures to appear in my knitr-generated report, but I would also like to output them to separate files, too. To do this, I have included code like the following:
```{r}
#Plot figure in report
plot(x,y)
#Plot figure in file
pdf(file="MyFig.pdf")
plot(x,y)
dev.off()
```
This works fine, but I expect there's a more elegant solution for this already built into knitr. Is there a chunk option or something similar that achieves the same results?
Use the option self_contained: no
if you are using html_document
, or keep_tex: yes
if you use pdf_document
, so that rmarkdown will not remove the figure files after rendering the output document.