pixgallery() not working with local images about pixture HOT 6 OPEN

I notice that if I include knitr::include_graphics(paths) which renders the files, they are created in the output directory and pixgallery() renders. It seems that the issue is with the images not being written to the output directory. When they are, everything else works well.

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Ah right, yes! Pixture does not move or embed the images. If it works with knitr::include_graphics(paths), that's good news! Thanks for bringing this up. I will update it in the vignette.

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The matter seems to be with needing to copy the files to the kintr output directory, which in my narrow case is docs because I'm using GitHub pages (Quarto normally renders to _site). If I 1) check for the output directory and create it if not there and 2) copy files from paths to the appropriate knitr output dir (in my case docs/images under a project), then pixgallery() seems to render things fine.

I'm probably not doing this in the most elegant way, but this got things working

if (!dir.exists(paste0(here::here(),"/docs/",substr(paths[1],4,17)))) {
  print("Not there, so create")
  dir.create(paste0(here::here(),"/docs/",substr(paths[1],4,9))) # create parent dir
  dir.create(paste0(here::here(),"/docs/",substr(paths[1],4,16))) # create image dir
} else {
  print("There, don't create")
}
  
file.copy(from = paths,
          to = paste0(here::here(), "/docs/", substr(paths,4,100)))

So it seems that pixgallery() isn't copying local files to the output directory. If one does this explicitly in an R Markdown document, then things work ok. Perhaps that is something to raise in the vignette. I don't know how hard it would be to include in the pixgallery() function the ability to copy files to the knitr output "under the hood".

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Is this in the RStudio notebook or in a rendered HTML file?

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It is in the output files which at my end are rendered in quarto. The screenshots came from the browser, not the R Studio viewer. I notice also that the image files are not being written to the output directory.

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I was like "What am I doing wrong?!" for like an hour.

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