Is it possible to split the RMD output per each section?

[Pradeep Eranti]

This is not a bug but a query.

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Is it possible to direct multiple sections of the same Rmarkdwon file into multiple word_document files (one each per section)? Currently, the output is only one, which contains all sections in one file.

[Dr. Chester Ismay]

I'm not so sure on that. It seems like maybe bookdown has some ways to do this and so it might work with thesisdown too:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46814182/bookdown-is-it-possible-to-split-by-at-the-subsection-level
• https://community.rstudio.com/t/bookdown-how-to-break-chapters-into-multiple-rmd-files/14412

[Pradeep Eranti]

Thanks @ismayc for the links.

output:
  thesisdown::thesis_word:
    split_by: section

It did not work for me.

[Dr. Chester Ismay]

Hmm, it might not work as an out of the box solution. I asked ChatGPT, and it provided some guidance here. You might just have to manually create the Word files from your chapter file Doc outputs, or write an R script like suggested to create section files that you then knit separately.