Render to File — render • extera

R6 method for ExTera: render specified template to file.

$render(template, outfile, ...)

Arguments

template: character scalar, the name of the template to render.
outfile: character scalar, the path to file where template is to be rendered.
...: specify context as key-value pairs where key is the template variable and value is the data to inject.

Value

outfile (invisibly)

Details

All context elements must be named.

Examples

tera <- new_engine()

tera$add_string_templates(
  "hello-world" = '<p>Hello {{ x }}. This is {{ y }}.</p>'
)

outfile <- file.path(tempdir(), "rendered-hello-world.html")

tera$render(
  "hello-world",
  outfile = outfile,
  x = "world",
  y = "ExTera"
)

readLines(outfile, warn = FALSE)
#> [1] "<p>Hello world. This is ExTera.</p>"