R Templates for Reproducible Data Analyses

A collection of R Markdown templates for nicely structured, reproducible data analyses in R. The templates have embedded examples on how to write citations, footnotes, equations and use colored message/info boxes, how to cross-reference different parts/sections in the report, provide a nice table of contents (toc) with a References section and proper R session information as well as examples using DT tables and ggplot2 graphs. The bookdown Lite template theme supports code folding.

rtemps

My personal favourite R templates for doing reproducible data analyses.

Available Themes

• United HTML Document: a bootstrap-based single R Markdown document

• Bookdown Lite: a single-paged bookdown-based document

Install

From CRAN:

install.packages("rtemps")

Note that the package imports among others the libraries DT, ggplot2 and xfun.

Usage

Once the templates are installed, you can use them in 2 ways:

1. Within the templates in RStudio (highly advised - easiest way):

• File > New File > R Markdown... > From Template (United HTML Theme)
• File > New Project... > New Directory > Bookdown Lite project (Bookdown Lite Theme)

1. By calling the create_rtemp() function which allows you to create a new directory with all the template files inside, ready to be used/rendered.

Notes

United HTML Theme

• To create and render the template from an R session, run:

rtemps::create_rtemp(dirname = "new-dir", template = "united_html")
rmarkdown::render(input = "new-dir/index.Rmd", output_format = "html_document", output_dir = "new-dir")

Bookdown Lite Theme

• To create and render the template from the command line, run:

Rscript -e "rtemps::create_rtemp(dirname = 'new-dir', template = 'bookdown_lite')"
cd new-dir
./_build.sh

• The output of the Bookdown Lite theme is placed under a docs directory, so that it can easily be rendered with GitHub Pages.
• The Bookdown Lite can be easily converted to a multi-paged document by configuring the split_by property in the _output.yml template file (check the doc).