still use r-forge to host images, because Dropbox does not work well …

…with animations
liyunfei5126 · Feb 17, 2013 · 5535d56 · 5535d56
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diff --git a/_bin/knit b/_bin/knit
@@ -25,8 +25,16 @@ invisible(local({
   # generate figures to the ./figure/ directory
   if (!file.exists('figure/')) dir.create('figure')
   opts_knit$set(base.dir = normalizePath('figure', mustWork = TRUE))
-  # I save figures to my Dropbox folder
-  opts_knit$set(base.url = if (Sys.getenv('USER') != 'yihui') '/figure/' else
-    'http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15335397/vistat/')
+  # save images to R-Forge; I can simply save them to my Dropbox folder, e.g.
+  # http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15335397/vistat/ but the problem is that animations
+  # do not work well under Google Chrome for some reason (SciAnimator keeps on
+  # fetching images from Dropbox)
+  opts_knit$set(base.url = if (Sys.getenv('USER') != 'yihui') '/figure/' else {
+    # mount my R-Forge dir to the local figure dir
+    if (as.character(file.info('figure/')[, 'mode']) != '2755') {
+      stopifnot(system('sshfs [email protected]:/srv/gforge/chroot/home/groups/isu/htdocs/vistat figure') == 0L)
+    }
+    'http://isu.r-forge.r-project.org/vistat/'
+  })
   knit(f, paste('_posts/', base, '.md', sep = ''), envir = globalenv())
 }))