Networkd3 Sankey Diagram Won't Print to HTML - r

Question

I am trying to create a Sankey Network for energy flow from data imported from excel sheets. I don't need it to be interactive and I think I have the code right. However, when I run the code in R Markdown it just creates a blank space - no diagram. Code as follows:
library(dplyr)
library(shiny)
library(htmlwidgets)
library(networkD3)
nodes = data.frame("name" = c(Energy$`Alberta Energy Flow in 2015: PJ`[2:11], Energy$...5[1], Energy$...6[1], Energy$...7[1], Energy$...8[1], Energy$...9[1], Energy$...10[1], Energy$...11[1],Energy$...2[13],Energy$...3[13] ), stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
links = as.data.frame(matrix(c(
0, 10, Energy$...5[2],
1, 10, Energy$...5[3],
2, 10, Energy$...5[4],
3, 10, Energy$...5[5],
4, 10, Energy$...5[6],
5, 10, Energy$...5[7],
6, 10, Energy$...5[8],
7, 10, Energy$...5[9],
8, 10, Energy$...5[10],
9, 10, Energy$...5[11],
0, 12, Energy$...7[2],
1, 12, Energy$...7[3],
#code continues as such for a while
byrow = TRUE, ncol = 3 ))
names(links)=c("source", "target", "value")
s <- sankeyNetwork(Links=links, Nodes=nodes, Source="source", Target="target",Value="value", NodeID="name", fontSize=12, nodeWidth=25 )
sankeyNetworkOutput("ABEnergy15.html", width = "500px", height = "1000px")

Answer 1

sankeyNetworkOutput() is used for Shiny apps, so you probably don't want to use that.
If you want to use it in RMarkdown, you probably want to add s to the last line of your code chunk, because that will tell R to "print" the s object which contians the htmlwidget that sankeyNetwork() created.
If you want to save it to a file, which it seems like based on your code having an html filename it, try using...
saveNetwork(s, "ABEnergy15.html")