Hi Kevin,
You should be able to do what you want directly from the `.Rmd` buffer. I
posted a tutorial here:
https://plantarum.ca/2021/10/03/emacs-tutorial-rmarkdown/
With the right packages installed, from the .Rmd buffer you can export your
file with `M-n e`, select `markdown` and `html`
Thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel's suggestion of his render.r executable, I
was able to boil it down to the commands I need to render the Rmarkdown.
I run this _once_ in the R console window of Emacs running ESS:
library(rmarkdown)
Then, everytime I want to update the document I'm working on, I