rmdformats

This R package provides ready-to-use HTML output formats and templates for RMarkdown documents. The goal is to produce clean documents "out of the box", with or without the RStudio IDE.

Formats

The package provides two HTML output formats. You can click on an image to see a real HTML output sample.

html_clean format

html_docco format

Features and helpers

Some extra features are available depending on the format :

• both formats provide automatic thumbnails for figures with lightbox display
• html_clean provides an automatic and dynamic javascript table of contents

The package also provides a create.doc() function as well as RStudio document templates to easily generate an empty and ready to use rmarkdown file with several configuration directives.

Finally, it also provides the pilltabs() helper function, which allows to display a crosstab dynamically. See one of the output samples for a live example.

Installation

The package is not available on CRAN yet, but it is installable from Github :

install.packages(devtools)  # if necessary
devtools::install_github("juba/rmdformats")

Creating a new document

Within RStudio

Choose File > New File... > R Markdown..., then select From Template. You should then be able to create a new document from one of the package templates.

Without RStudio

The create.doc() function allows you to create a new directory with a clean ready-to-use RMarkdown file. create.doc() gets two main arguments :

• dirname is the name of the folder and RMarkdown file to be created
• format is the format name ("html_clean" or "html_docco")

By default, a Makefile file will be created in the new folder for direct rendering from the command line.

Rendering

With RStudio

Rendering from within RStudio should be quite simple : just click the Knit button.

Rendering from R

You can render your document into HTML directly from within R with the render() function from the rmarkdown package :

library(rmarkdown)
render("mydocument.Rmd")

Rendering with the Makefile

If you created your .Rmd file with the create.doc() function, you can then generate HTML or PDF files with :

make html
make pdf

You can also clean out any generated files and cache with :

make clean

Credits

• Tocify for the dynamic javascript table of contents
• Magnific popup lightbox plugin
• The code of create.doc() is heavily inspired by the create.project() function of the ProjectTemplate package
• The CSS for the html_docco format is heavily inspired from the default one of the docco project.

The html_clean styling and features are very similar to the ones from the great knitrBootstrap package by Jim Hester.