pander (version 0.3.1)

Pandoc: Reporting with Pandoc

Description

This R5 reference class can hold bunch of elements (text or R objects) from which it tries to create a Pandoc's markdown text file. Exporting the report to several formats (like: pdf, docx, odt etc. - see Pandoc's documentation) is also possible, see examples below.

Examples

## Initialize a new Pandoc object
myReport <- Pandoc$new()

## Add author, title and date of document
myReport$author <- 'Anonymous'
myReport$title  <- 'Demo'

## Or it could be done while initializing
myReport <- Pandoc$new('Anonymous', 'Demo')

## Add some free text
myReport$add.paragraph('Hello there, this is a really short tutorial!')

## Add maybe a header for later stuff
myReport$add.paragraph('# Showing some raw R objects below')

## Adding a short matrix
myReport$add(matrix(5,5,5))

## Or a table with even # TODO: caption
myReport$add.paragraph('Hello table:')
myReport$add(table(mtcars$am, mtcars$gear))

## Or a "large" data frame which barely fits on a page
myReport$add(mtcars)

## And a simple linear model with Anova tables
ml <- with(lm(mpg ~ hp + wt), data = mtcars)
myReport$add(ml)
myReport$add(anova(ml))
myReport$add(aov(ml))

## And do some principal component analysis at last
myReport$add(prcomp(USArrests))

## Sorry, I did not show how Pandoc deals with plots:
myReport$add(plot(1:10)) # TODO: caption

## Want to see the report? Just print it:
myReport

## Exporting to pdf (default)
myReport$export()

## Or to docx in tempdir():
myReport$format <- 'docx'
myReport$export(tempfile())

## You do not want to see the generated report after generation?
myReport$export(open = FALSE)