Default knit directory via YAML header in RStudio?

Question

Is there a YAML option, which sets knit directory for an Rmd file? I.e. does the same as illustrated in Fig.1. The problem is that every time I copy files or share a project with other people (which usually have different default RStudio options than I do), the knit directory should be reset manually in each file. I'm aware of the global option (Fig.2), but I need a more reproducible solution which works for individual Rmd files in both both RStudio notebook and knitting modes. And, for instance, I know that there is an option such as:

editor_options: 
  chunk_output_type: console

Any ideas?

Fig. 1 Setting knit directory via menu commands.

Fig. 2 Global option to set default knit directory in RStudio.

Answer 1

You could try to specify the knit field in the front-matter of our .Rmd file. Example .Rmd that would knit into "some_dir" created in your home directory:

---
title: "Untitled"
output: html_document
knit: (function(inputFile, encoding) {
    rmarkdown::render(inputFile, encoding = encoding, output_dir = "~/some_dir/")
  })
---

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