How do I put Bookdown chapters in a subdirectory?

Question

I can't figure put how to make a book with Rmd files in a subdirectory.

Here's my current directory structure:

• myProject.Rproj
• index.RMD
• _bookdown.yml
• chapters/
  • chapt1.RMD
  • chapt2.RMD
  • extraThatShouldNotBeIncluded.RMD

What should go in _bookdown.yml and in index.RMD to make this work?

Answer 1

It turns out that you just have to specify the directory of each RMD in _bookdown.yml:

rmd_files: ["index.Rmd", "chapters/chapt1.RMD", "chapters/chapt2.RMD"]