~ jim - Publishing content in Quarto using conditionals and if/else code flow

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~ jim - Publishing content in Quarto using conditionals and if/else code flow

A selection of simple methods using the knitr engine and HTML output

https://jimgar.github.io/posts/quarto-code-conditionals/post.html

[lamurian]

Hey Jim, nice article! You might have found another workaround to make {{< include >}} conditional. Just leaving my two cents here, I usually wrap {{< include >}} in a conditional div, e.g.:

::: {.content-visible when-meta="include.this"}
{{< include this.qmd >}}
:::

Where when-meta (or unless-meta) corresponds to the metadata in your YAML. A complete minimal working example would be as follow:

File: main.qmd

---
include:
  this: true
---

This is the main markdown, and I want to include other files conditionally.

::: {.content-visible when-meta="include.this"}
{{< include this.qmd >}}
:::

File: this.qmd

This is the file I included.

I often use this in my writing, you can see it in action: https://github.com/namakala/medication-trend/blob/6a66b4aaf2857852c377e5925871eeaa7ecdc03f/docs/index.qmd#L9-L11