r - setting up texmaker with knitr on linux

Question

I am trying to change the R Sweave command to knitr on linux. The current (R Sweave) command is found under options > configure:

R CMD Sweave %.Rnw

Yihui gives and example of how to do this on windows here.

How would you do this on linux (ubuntu)?

Answer 1

Rscript isn't called by using Rscript.exe on Linux. Just change Rscript.exe to Rscript.

Answer 2

I just wanted to add that I just discovered that the abovementioned code does not work when child Rnw documents are included with \Sexpr{knit_child('path')}.

Use Rscript -e "library(knitr); knit('%.Rnw')" instead.

Please mention in the comments if you know of any difference in output between knit::knit2pdf() and knit().