reports package

Purpose

reports (Rinker, 2013) is a package that assists in writing flexible reports and presentations. The package is designed to be used with RStudio, MiKTex/TexLive/LibreOffice, Pandoc, knitr (Xie, 2013), slidify (Vaidyanathan, 2012) and knitcitations (Boettiger, 2013).

reports Will Make You...

Download:

• RStudio - http://www.rstudio.com/
  
• MiKTex - http://miktex.org/ or
  
• TexLive - http://www.tug.org/texlive/
  
• LibreOffice - http://www.libreoffice.org/
  
• Pandoc - http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
  
• knitr (Xie, 2013) - http://yihui.name/knitr/
• slidify (Vaidyanathan, 2012) - http://ramnathv.github.io/slidify/
  
• knitcitations (Boettiger, 2013)
  

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install.packages("reports")

This will install: knitr, knitcitations & slidify too

may want to use:

install.packages("installr")

https://github.com/trinker/reports

library(devtools)
install_github("reports", "trinker")

The user can add these options to their .Rprofile

options(bib.loc = "C:/Users/trinker/Desktop/PhD Program/MASTER.bib")
options(name.reports = "Tyler Rinker\\\\University at Buffalo")
options(sources.reports = path.expand("~/path_1"), path.expand("~/path_2"))
options(temp.reports = "apa6.mod.qual_tex")
options(github.user = "trinker")
options(speed.temp = list(`1` = "wordpress_rmd", `2` = "basic_rmd", `3` = "apa6.mod.qual_tex"))
options(present.template = "revealjs")

Now the user is ready to generate a new report/paper or presentation project.

Use:

setwd(desired.location)
new_report("NEW")

# or

presentation("NEW")

reports_vignette
reports Web Page
Project Directory Workflow
reports Dependencies
.Rmd file of these slides
Slidify Examples