Feature to knit a single section instead of whole document

[DiegoJArg]

Hi,
as previously posted here
And haven't found if the feature already exists.

It would be helpful to set this Feature Request for Rstudio Rmarkdown files.

• Knitt only the currently under-work section as pointed by the cursor.
  - Instead of knitting the entire document.
  - Sometimes I just want to quickly check if my markdown looks pretty enough.

Thanks in advance

[ronblum]

@DiegoJArg Thank you for the suggestion! For what you're interested in, does running the individual chunks and previewing the document address what you're looking for?

[DiegoJArg]

@ronblum Not really. Running individual chunks are about chunks of code, a Section of rmarkdown may contain multiple chunks and multiple subsections. This is more about the markdown's output than the chunk execution.

Example: Working with a rmarkdown in conclusions of a thesis. I may not want to rebuild calculations over and over again to check the look&feel of that section's output.

[ronblum]

@DiegoJArg Got it—thank you for the describing the distinction!