#8 [Questions] When creating Rmd from template, YAML title field is not populated with entered title

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: jemus42

…instead, the file is placed in a folder named after the entered title.
I get that this might me intended behavior, however, "normal" Rmd documents behave differently, and I feel it would be more adequate to mimic that behavior (i.e. creating a file with entered name and title: in the working directory, since the template only produces a single HTML file anyway, thereby I don't see the need for an enclosing folder.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: hrbrmstr

Letting this sit open for a while to see if others want to chime in.

It def was a deliberate choice (it's tidier this way IMO as there are ancillary files generated and not cleaned up by the "Knitt" command in RStudio). Also the behavior is controllable when using rmarkdown::render directly. Also, if folks who are new to this do end up forking/cloning and augmenting with their own stuff (the main intention of this pkg) then when they try to add assets (vis a vis) they won't get burned if they don't end up reading that linked page.