Loop in R markdown

Question

I have an R markdown document like this:

The following graph shows a histogram of variable x:

```{r}
hist(x)
```

I want to introduce a loo

Answer 1

As already mentioned, any loop needs to be in a code chunk. It might be easier to to give the histogram a title rather than add a line of text as a header for each one.

```{r}
    for i in length(somelist) {
        title <- paste("The following graph shows a histogram of", somelist[[ i ]])
        hist(somelist[[i]], main=title)
    }
```

However, if you would like to create multiple reports then check out this thread.

Which also has a link to this example.
It seems when the render call is made from within a script, the environmental variables can be passed to the Rmd file.

So an alternative might be to have your R script:

for i in length(somelist) {
    rmarkdown::render('./hist_.Rmd',  # file 2
               output_file =  paste("hist", i, ".html", sep=''), 
               output_dir = './outputs/')
}

And then your Rmd chunk would look like:

```{r}
    hist(i)
```

Disclaimer: I haven't tested this.