Pkgdown: Other ways to exclude Rmd files while building articles

[rickhelmus]

Hello,

I am using both pkgdown and bookdown for my R package. For this I need to exclude a set of Rmd files in order to build the website that are only used by bookdown. The way to go was by prefixing these files with an underscore, however, ironically enough bookdown recently also started to ignore files prefixed with an underscore. Is there way around it? Currently I am temporarily re-naming files, but this is obviously quite messy :-(

Thanks,
Rick

[jayhesselberth]

We should probably provide a way to specify excluded files in the pkgdown config file that is independent of a filename prefix.

[hadley]

You can also exclude vignettes from becoming articles by adding to .Rbuildignore. It's not clear to me that we need a third mechanism. I'd want to know more about how exactly you are attempting to use bookdown and pkgdown together before we consider adding any new code.

[salim-b]

@hadley I have a TODO.md in the package's root dir which I've added to .Rbuildignore. pkgdown always builds this to TODO.html. How would I tell pkgdown to ignore it instead?