A simple wrapper to knit an Rmd file to output an html from the comand-line using Pandoc.

knit_to_html.sh

#!/bin/bash

infile=$1

if [[ $infile == *.Rmd ]]
then
	echo "Knitting Rmd file"
	Rscript -e "library(knitr); knit('$infile')";
	name=${infile%.Rmd}
else
	echo "Markdown file"	
	name=${infile%.md}
fi

# pandoc --from=markdown --to=html --output=$name".html" -s --highlight-style tango $name".md"
OUTFILE=$name
Rscript -e "rmarkdown::render('${OUTFILE}.md', 'html_document', output_file = '${OUTFILE}.html')"