Log Message:
(print/R-knitr) Updated 1.38.to 1.41, Newest info unknown

https://github.com/yihui/knitr/releases
knitr 1.40

24 Aug 15:39

NEW FEATURES

  * Added a function convert_chunk_header() to convert the old in-header chunk
    options to the new in-body chunk options (#2149 #2151).

  * Added a new "graphics device", dev = "gridSVG", which uses
    gridSVG::grid.export() to export grid graphics to SVG (thanks, @jooyoungseo
    , #2152).

  * Added a new engine eviews, which calls the EviewsR package to execute
    EViews code (thanks, @sagirumati, #2158).

  * Added support for a php engine like other engines for interpreted
    languages. It will call php -r <code>, with <code> being the \ 
chunk content
    (thanks, @ralmond, #2144).

  * Per suggestion of @jakubkaczor (#2116) and discussion with @pedropark99 (#
    2140), the chunk option fig.sep can also be used to add LaTeX code before
    the first sub-figure now. Previously this option can only be used for
    adding LaTeX code after each sub-figure.

  * knitr::kable() supports tabularx and xltabular environments now for LaTeX
    tables, e.g., knitr::kable(head(iris), format = 'latex', tabular =
    'tabularx') (thanks, @amarakon, #2138).

  * For HTML output formats of R Markdown, SVG plots (e.g., in case of chunk
    option dev = 'svg' or dev = 'gridSVG') can be embedded differently now when
    options(knitr.svg.object = TRUE): if the HTML output is self-contained, the
    raw SVG code will be embedded directly in HTML, otherwise the .svg file is
    embedded in the <object> tag. By default, this feature is not enabled,
    i.e., the default is options(knitr.svg.object = FALSE) for
    backward-compatibility, which means the <img> tag is used for SVG plots
    just like other plot formats. This new feature will make assistive
    technology agents, such as screen readers, interact with SVG plots (thanks,
    @jooyoungseo, #2152).

knitr 1.39
27 Apr 02:07
MAJOR CHANGES

  * Added an argument rel_path to include_graphics(), which defaults to TRUE,
    meaning that this function will try to convert absolute paths to relative
    paths automatically. If the conversion fails, it will issue a warning. If
    you want to suppress the conversion (and the warning), you may use rel_path
    = FALSE or set the global option options(knitr.graphics.rel_path = FALSE).
    In the previous version of knitr, this function would always issue a
    warning when it detects absolute paths (thanks, @davidski @kendavidn, #2119
    ).