Task runner to render bookdown projects in Visual Studio Code

tasks.json

{
  // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
  // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "label": "Knit bookdown project",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "/usr/local/bin/RScript -e 'setwd(\"index\"); bookdown::render_book(\"index.rmd\"); setwd(\"..\");'",
      "windows": {
        // note: if you put the R directory in your Windows PATH, Bash WSL can use it here!
        "command": "Rscript.exe -e \"setwd(\\\"index\\\"); bookdown::render_book(\\\"index.rmd\\\"); setwd(\\\"..\\\");\""
      }
    }
  ]
}