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metadata

The YAML metadata of the current R Markdown document

Description

The object metadata stores the YAML metadata of the current R Markdown document as a list, which you may use in the R code chunks, e.g. rmarkdown::metadata$title (the title of the document), rmarkdown::metadata$author, and rmarkdown::metadata$foo (if you have a YAML field named foo), etc.

Format

An object of class list of length 0.

Examples

rmarkdown::metadata
rmarkdown

Dynamic Documents for R

v2.10
GPL-3
Authors
JJ Allaire [aut], Yihui Xie [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-5666>), Jonathan McPherson [aut], Javier Luraschi [aut], Kevin Ushey [aut], Aron Atkins [aut], Hadley Wickham [aut], Joe Cheng [aut], Winston Chang [aut], Richard Iannone [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3925-190X>), Andrew Dunning [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0464-5036>), Atsushi Yasumoto [ctb, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8335-495X>, Number sections Lua filter), Barret Schloerke [ctb], Carson Sievert [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4958-2844>), Christophe Dervieux [ctb], Devon Ryan [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8549-0971>), Frederik Aust [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4900-788X>), Jeff Allen [ctb], JooYoung Seo [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4064-6012>), Malcolm Barrett [ctb], Rob Hyndman [ctb], Romain Lesur [ctb], Roy Storey [ctb], Ruben Arslan [ctb], Sergio Oller [ctb], RStudio, PBC [cph], jQuery Foundation [cph] (jQuery library), jQuery contributors [ctb, cph] (jQuery library; authors listed in inst/rmd/h/jquery-AUTHORS.txt), jQuery UI contributors [ctb, cph] (jQuery UI library; authors listed in inst/rmd/h/jqueryui-AUTHORS.txt), Mark Otto [ctb] (Bootstrap library), Jacob Thornton [ctb] (Bootstrap library), Bootstrap contributors [ctb] (Bootstrap library), Twitter, Inc [cph] (Bootstrap library), Alexander Farkas [ctb, cph] (html5shiv library), Scott Jehl [ctb, cph] (Respond.js library), Ivan Sagalaev [ctb, cph] (highlight.js library), Greg Franko [ctb, cph] (tocify library), John MacFarlane [ctb, cph] (Pandoc templates), Google, Inc. [ctb, cph] (ioslides library), Dave Raggett [ctb] (slidy library), W3C [cph] (slidy library), Dave Gandy [ctb, cph] (Font-Awesome), Ben Sperry [ctb] (Ionicons), Drifty [cph] (Ionicons), Aidan Lister [ctb, cph] (jQuery StickyTabs), Benct Philip Jonsson [ctb, cph] (pagebreak Lua filter), Albert Krewinkel [ctb, cph] (pagebreak Lua filter)
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