Executing Perl 6 code in Rmarkdown

Question

I want to write some tutorials on Perl 6. For this I believe Rmarkdown would be of great help.

So I am trying to execute Perl 6 code within Rmarkdown docum

Answer 1

You had two problems in your example. First, I think you can still use the existing perl engine (perl6 is not a valid engine name). Second, the engine.path option should point to the path of the executable instead of the directory name, e.g.

---
title: "Example"
output: html_document
---

```{perl, engine.path='C:\\rakudo\\bin\\perl6.exe'}
my $s= "knitr is really good";
say $s;
```

You can also set the engine path globally for the perl engine:

```{r, setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(engine.path = list(
  perl = 'C:\\rakudo\\bin\\perl6.exe'
))
```