Branding and Packaging Reports with R Markdown

Create custom R Markdown templates and {ggplot2} themes, then package them up to distribute.

1. Branding and Packaging Reports with R Markdown wjakethompson bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf wjakethompson.com @wjakethompson Jake Thompson, PhD University of Kansas Accessible Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Systems 2020-01-30 • rstudio::conf(2020)
2. Noelle Pablo Assistant Psychometrician University of Kansas, ATLAS @noelle_pablo noellepablo Jeff Hoover Graduate Research Assistant University of Kansas, ATLAS @JeffreyCHoover JeffreyCHoover bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
3. Reports with R Markdown • Reproducible • Dynamic • Multiple output formats bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
4. != bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
5. Step 1: Find your brand bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
6. Step 1: Find your brand bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
7. Step 2: Build a template bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
8. Building a Word Template 1. Start writing document in R Markdown. bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
9. Building a Word Template 1. Start writing document in R Markdown. 2. Knit your document. bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
10. Building a Word Template 1. Start writing document in R Markdown. 2. Knit your document. 3. Style and save your word document. bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
11. Building a Word Template 1. Start writing document in R Markdown. 2. Knit your document. 3. Style and save your word document. 4. Define your template in your YAML. bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
12. Resources! • Branding and Automating with R Markdown - Daniel Hadley • Happy Collaboration with Rmd to docx - Richard Layton • R Markdown: The Definitive Guide - Yuihui Xie, J. J. Allair, Garrett Grolemund bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
13. Step 3: Polish • Custom {ggplot2} themes • {hrbrthemes} - Bob Rudis • {Rtistic} - Emily Riederer • {bbplot} - BBC • Default {knitr} chunks • {knitr} options guide bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
14. What Next? Copy and paste into each project • Templates • {ggplot2} themes • Other settings Wrap it up in an R package! • Always have the right version • Easy to distribute • Documentation included bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
15. Use Case: ratlas • Templates for reports • Convenient project templates • {ggplot2} themes • Vignettes! bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
16. Package Structure ratlas |-- DESCRIPTION |-- inst | |-- rmarkdown | |-- rstudio |-- man |-- NAMESPACE |-- R |-- README.md |-- tests |-- vignettes bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
17. inst/rmarkdown/ ratlas |-- inst | |-- rmarkdown | |-- templates | |-- topicguide | |-- resources | |-- template.docx | |-- techreport | |-- resources | |-- template.tex bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
18. R/render.R topicguide_docx <- function(...) { template <- system.file("rmarkdown", "templates", "topicguide", "template.docx") base <- bookdown::word_document2(reference_docx = template, ...) base$knitr$opts_chunk$echo <- FALSE base$knitr$opts_chunk$fig.asp <- 0.618 base } bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
19. inst/rstudio/ ratlas |-- inst | |-- rstudio | |-- templates | |-- project | |-- topicguide.dcf | |-- topicguide_resources | |-- index.Rmd | |-- references.bib bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
20. Making it easy bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
21. Making it easy bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
22. Making it easy bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
23. Making it easy bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
24. Other Examples! • sorensonimpact • Sorenson Impact Center • Jonathan Zadra, Daniel Hadley, & Gwendolyn Reynolds • thesisdown • Reed College (with many forks) • Chester Ismay • rticles • Journal LaTeX templates • J. J. Allaire, Yihui Xie, R Foundation, et al. bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf
25. Thank you! bit.ly/ratlas-rstudioconf @wjakethompson wjakethompson.com