Output format of an R Markdown document

Description

Helper function to determine the document's current pandoc output format.

Usage

output()

Details

The function is useful for defining different behavior depending on the output format, e.g. figure settings.

Value

A character string specifying the pandoc output format.

Author(s)

Andrzej Ole<c3><85><c2><9b> <andrzej.oles@embl.de>, 2016

Examples

## Not run: 
## Switch between SVG and PDF figures depending on document output format
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  dev = switch(output(), html = "svg", latex = "pdf")
  )

## End(Not run)

Results