--self-contained, rmarkdown will use --embed-resources --standalone for output formats that use the option self_contained = TRUE, so this is addressed now.pandoc_convert did not handle
the line endings correctly.Remove intermediate files and use the correct output directory if not the default one.
Removed undeclared dependency from ggplot2
(was only needed by testing, before)
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.