The rewrap doesn't work in .Rmd files

[Andryas]

What I need to do to allow the rewrap to work in .Rmd files?

[mihaiconstantin]

Any updates on this? I also really miss this feature and I wish to know whether there is anything that can be done here. As far as I can tell, when the R extension is enabled, VSCode correctly handles .rmd files and knows to differentiate between the r script books and the markdown ones.

[stkb]

Yeah sorry I'll get on to this right away. As far as I can tell .rmd is exactly the same as a markdown document? (with a Yaml front-matter section)

[mihaiconstantin]

Thanks for taking a look at this @stkb!

Indeed, the .rmd document is a simple markdown file with a yml header. The only significant difference I can think of is that the code blocks have a special syntax declaration. For example, in a simple .md file an r code block would look like this:

```r
# A comment.
```

However, within a .rmd the code block will look like this:

```{r}
# A comment.
```

Often the {r} is extended with options, for instance:

```{r dev="pdf", fig.width=8, fig.height=8, out.width="200px", fig.align="center"}
# Some code that plots something.
```

Would this represent a problem?

[mihaiconstantin]

Yeah sorry I'll get on to this right away. As far as I can tell .rmd is exactly the same as a markdown document? (with a Yaml front-matter section)

Another thing is that you can also use LaTeX commands within an .rmd document. But I think Rewrap already plays nicely with .tex files.

[stkb]

Ok it's now in pre-release version 17.6. The code blocks shouldn't be a problem. I'm not sure about the LaTeX since Rewrap doesn't really do content-types within content-types yet

[mihaiconstantin]

Thanks a lot for adding support for .rmd files. I tested the pre-release on several .rmd files and it works really well!
@Andryas, I think this issue can be closed?

[stkb]

@mihaiconstantin thanks, and I normally close issues once the fix is published in a stable version.

[stkb]

Now also in stable v1.16.2