1 new_session: yes example

I am using new_session: yes for the “Knit and Merge” (K-M) approach to book rendering. I do not want to keep .md files but I can’t find a way to get rid of them.

The contents of the _bookdown.yml file are:

output_dir: docs
new_session: yes
delete_merged_file: true
edit: https://github.com/minimumexample/keepmarkdownfalse/edit/master/%s
view: https://github.com/minimumexample/keepmarkdownfalse/blob/master/%s

and the contents of the _output.yml file are:

bookdown::gitbook:
  keep_md: false

yet docs/index.md remains after rendering.

(keep_md: false shouldn’t be necessary but tried it just in case. It didn’t help.)

The same is the case with

bookdown::render_book("index.Rmd", new_session = TRUE, clean = TRUE)