minimalTemplate

{minimalTemplate} is a highly opinionated package to facilitate the production of docx files using RMarkdown. For now, this package has no commitment to the structure standards of the projects or R packages. Use at your own risk.

Installation

You can install the development version of {minimalTemplate} with:

if(!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("kguidonimartins/minimalTemplate")

Example

To use the full workflow of the {minimalTemplate}, follow the steps below:

1. Set up a new template
2. Download a new citation style
3. Set up the version control of .docx files (optional, but recommended)

1. Setting up a new template

Set a new template using:

# load minimalTemplate
library(minimalTemplate)

# create a temporary directory (for a demo proposal only)
tmp_proj <- file.path(tempdir(), "awesome-manuscript")

# run `setup_template()`
setup_template(tmp_proj)

## ✔ Creating '/tmp/RtmpUCZXET/awesome-manuscript/'

## ✔ Setting active project to '/tmp/RtmpUCZXET/awesome-manuscript'

## ✔ Creating 'R/'

## ✔ Writing 'awesome-manuscript.Rproj'

## ✔ Adding '.Rproj.user' to '.gitignore'

## ✔ Setting active project to '<no active project>'

## ℹ Please, following the instructions in the 'todo.txt' file

The folder structure of the awesome-project project is (this is not a mandatory structure):

## /tmp/RtmpUCZXET/awesome-manuscript
## ├── .Rbuildignore
## ├── .dockerignore
## ├── .github
## │   └── workflows
## │       └── docker.yaml
## ├── .gitignore
## ├── .travis.yml
## ├── DESCRIPTION
## ├── Dockerfile
## ├── LICENSE.md
## ├── Makefile
## ├── R
## │   ├── analysis.Rmd
## │   ├── local_functions.R
## │   └── package_list.R
## ├── README.md
## ├── awesome-manuscript.Rproj
## ├── data
## │   ├── clean
## │   │   └── .gitkeep
## │   ├── raw
## │   │   └── .gitkeep
## │   └── temp
## │       └── .gitkeep
## ├── main-script.Rmd
## ├── manuscript
## │   └── sources
## │       ├── ecology-letters.csl
## │       ├── library.bib
## │       ├── packages.bib
## │       └── template.docx
## ├── output
## │   ├── figures
## │   │   └── .gitkeep
## │   ├── results
## │   │   └── .gitkeep
## │   └── supp
## │       └── .gitkeep
## └── todo.txt

Open the main-script.Rmd file and press the Knit button.

2. Download a new citation style

Set a new citation style using:

# First, search by your citation style using:
(eco <- grep(pattern = "ecology", x = rcrossref::get_styles(), value = TRUE))
# then:
download_csl(journal_style = eco[4], directory = "manuscript/sources/")

3. Setting up the version control of .docx files

In this step, I’m assuming you want to control the changes (files changes [text and code], entry of new analysis files) in your new project folder. Please, refer to this to learn how to configure git in your new project template.

To versioning your .docx files, just run the function:

setup_wdiff()

This function is based on two git hooks (available here) to create a .md copy of .docx files and track the changes.