Fix compile script

Fixed compile script to not use ifinstalled anymore.

HACK Fixed compile script to correctly pass through output targets to
RMarkdown, through the implementation is very rough currently.
It will look for additional arguments passed through and run RMarkdown
rendering once for each target. It would presumably be faster (and at
the very least more elegant) to pass all arguments through at once, but
I am not sure how to pass arguments through shell surrounded with
quotes.

scripts/.local/bin/compile

@@ -11,8 +11,13 @@
 # Expects the file to compile as first argument.
 # Desired output format(s) can be specified in optional arguments following.
 
-file=$(readlink -f "$1")
+file=$1
+if [ ! -f "$file" ]; then
+  echo "File does not exist."
+  exit 1
+else
   printf "file: %s\n" "$file"
+fi
 
 if [ "$#" -gt 1 ]; then
   shift
@@ -25,9 +30,9 @@ base="${file%.*}"
 cd "$dir" || exit
 
 textype() {
-  if (sed 5q "$file" | grep -i -q 'xelatex') && ifinstalled xelatex; then
+  if (sed 5q "$file" | grep -i -q 'xelatex') && exist xelatex; then
     command="xelatex"
-  elif ifinstalled pdflatex; then
+  elif exist pdflatex; then
     command="pdflatex"
   fi
   $command --output-directory="$dir" "$base" &&
@@ -38,10 +43,16 @@ textype() {
 }
 
 sendtoRmd() {
-  # v removed for too much magic that can break; simply input pdf_document if you want it
-  # formats=$(echo "$formats" | perl -pe 's/([\w-]+)(?<!_document)\b/"\1_document"/gm' | tr ' ' ',')
   printf "formats: %s\n" "$formats"
-  ifinstalled R && echo "require(rmarkdown); render('$1', c($formats))" | R -q --vanilla
+  ## FIXME this is horribly inefficient, should just pass all formats to R
+  # but R expects them as "strings" and I don't know how to quote the individual words
+  if [ -n "$formats" ]; then
+    for fmt in $formats; do
+      exist R critical && echo "require(rmarkdown); render('$1', c(\"$fmt\"))" | R -q --vanilla
+    done
+  else
+    exist R critical && echo "require(rmarkdown); render('$1')" | R -q --vanilla
+  fi
 }
 
 case "$file" in