Installation
You can install and use rticles from CRAN as follows:
install.packages("rticles")If you wish to install the development version from GitHub (which often contains new article formats), you can do this:
remotes::install_github("rstudio/rticles")Overview
The rticles package provides a suite of custom R Markdown LaTeX formats and templates for various formats, including:
ACM articles
ACS articles
AEA journal submissions
AGU journal submissions
AMS articles
Biometrics articles
Bulletin de l'AMQ journal submissions
CTeX documents
Elsevier journal submissions
IEEE Transaction journal submissions
JSS articles
MDPI journal submissions
NNRAS journal submissions
OUP articles
PeerJ articles
Royal Society Open Science journal submissions
Sage journal submissions
Springer journal submissions
Statistics in Medicine journal submissions
Copernicus Publications journal submissions
The R Journal articles
Frontiers articles
Taylor & Francis articles
Under the hood, LaTeX templates are used to ensure that documents conform precisely to submission standards. At the same time, composition and formatting can be done using lightweight markdown syntax, and R code and its output can be seamlessly included using knitr.
Using rticles requires the prerequisites described below. You can get most of these automatically by installing the latest release of RStudio (instructions for using rticles without RStudio are also provided).
Using rticles from RStudio
To use rticles from RStudio:
Install the latest RStudio.
Install the rticles package.
Use the New R Markdown dialog to create an article from one of the templates:
Using rticles outside of RStudio
Install pandoc using the instructions for your platform.
Install the rticles packages.
Use the
rmarkdown::draft()function to create articles:rmarkdown::draft("MyJSSArticle.Rmd", template = "jss_article", package = "rticles") rmarkdown::draft("MyRJournalArticle", template = "rjournal_article", package = "rticles")