[New R Package] rmd: Easily Install, Load and Explore the R Markdown Family

Repo

https://github.com/pzhaonet/rmd

What is the project about?

Since 'rmarkdown' and 'knitr', more and more members (rticles, bookdown, mindr...) have been joining the R Markdown family. Users can write elegant reproducible documents, manuscripts, dissertations, books, blog posts, posters, and slides within the framework of R markdown. It is exciting, while the installation and maintenance becomes annoying. In the meanwhile, there are plenty of useful RStudio addins, which equip the RStudio IDE as a powerful markdown editor. However, these little tools are often hidden somewhere deep in the community, and it is difficult to dig them out.

With 'rmd' you can easily explore, install, and load them for both R users and non-users. Furthermore, 'rmd' provides a RStudio addin to explore the R Markdown family and install them with a single click.

Forget R, and enjoy the wonderful world of R Markdown.

What are the current features?

• Load multiple functions with one command

  When 'rmd' is loaded, multiple useful markdown packages are loaded. Uses can directly write all kinds of documents with them.

require('rmd')
>> Loading required package: rmd
>> -- Attaching packages --------------------------------------------- rmd 0.1.3 --
>> √ rmarkdown    1.11.2     √ tinytex      0.9   
>> √ knitr        1.21       √ xaringan     0.8   
>> √ bookdown     0.9        √ citr         0.2.0 
>> √ blogdown     0.10       √ mindr        1.1.10
>> √ rticles      0.6        √ bookdownplus 1.5.4 

• 'rmd' provides four main functions currently.

  • rmd_conflicts(): check the conflicts of the functions in 'rmd' and other loaded packages.

  • rmd_deps(): list all the 'rmd' dependencies.

  • rmd_packages(): list all packages in 'rmd'.

  • rmd_update(): check to see if all rmd packages (and optionally, their dependencies) are up-to-date, and will install after an interactive confirmation.

• 'rmd' provides an RStudio addin. Click the 'Addins' button on the tool bar and find 'R Markdown Family' under 'RMD'. A table of suggested R markdown packages will pop out. A package in a green row has already been installed. Click a row to install or remove the package.

List of R markdown family members

The R markdown family members in the 'rmd' addin can be found on GitHub. If you made a useful package for the R markdown family, feel free to make a pull request and add it to the list.

Package	Date Added	Description	On CRAN?	Author	More links	Notes
beautifyR	2019-01-26	RStudio addin for formatting Rmarkdown tables	:x:	Matthias Weigand	Demo GIF
blogdown	2019-01-26	Create Blogs and Websites with R Markdown	:white_check_mark:	Yihui Xie et al.	Doc
bookdown	2019-01-26	Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown	:white_check_mark:	Yihui Xie et al.	Doc
bookdownplus	2019-01-26	The shortcut to the R package bookdown for writing varied types of books and documents	:white_check_mark:	Peng Zhao	Gallery
caseconverter	2019-01-26	Convert text cases to lower, upper, snake, camel cases	:x:	strboul	Demo GIF
citr	2019-01-26	Search a BibTeX-file and insert formatted Markdown citations	:white_check_mark:	Frederik Aust	Demo gif
drposter	2019-01-26	Generate Academic Posters in R Markdown and CSS, inspired by 'reveal.js'	:x:	Ben Bucior	Demo pdf
insertImage	2019-01-26	Insert image into R Markdown with file chooser. Copy image file to project.	:x:	Ludvig R Olsen
inserttable	2019-01-26	RStudio add-in facilitating insertion of nicely formatted tables in R markdown documents or plain R scripts.	:x:	Lorenzo Busetto	Blog Post
knitr	2019-01-26	A general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R	:white_check_mark:	Yihui Xie et al.	Blog Post
mindr	2019-01-26	Convert markdown files (.md, .Rmd) into mindmaps (brainstorms)	:white_check_mark:	Peng Zhao	Slides
pagedown	2019-01-26	Paginate the HTML Output of R Markdown with CSS for Print	:white_check_mark:	Yihui Xie et al.	Doc
regexplain	2019-01-26	Interactive regular expression utility belt	:x:	Garrick Aden-Buie	Demo gifs
remedy	2019-01-26	RStudio Addins to Simplify Markdown Writing	:x:	ThinkR	How it works
rmarkdown	2019-01-26	Dynamic Documents for R	:white_check_mark:	JJ Allaire et al.	Website
rmd	2019-01-26	Easily Installs and Loads the R Markdown Family	:white_check_mark:	Peng Zhao
rosr	2019-01-26	Create academic R markdown projects for open science and reproducible research	:x:	Peng Zhao
RStudioConsoleRender	2019-01-26	Render an R Markdown document in the global environment	:x:	Jeff Johnston	Blog post
rticles	2019-01-26	LaTeX Journal Article Templates for R Markdown	:white_check_mark:	JJ Allaire et al.
splitChunk	2019-01-26	Split code chunk in R Markdown	:x:	Ludvig R Olsen
strcode	2019-01-26	Insert code block separators and section titles	:x:	Lorenz Walthert	Demo GIF
tinytex	2019-01-26	A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live	:white_check_mark:	Yihui Xie et al.	Blog post
uniscape	2019-01-26	Convert non-ASCII strings to a portable format	:x:	Mikko Korpela	Screenshot
wellspell.addin	2019-01-26	Quick spellcheck with hunspell	:x:	Clemens Schmid
wordcountaddin	2019-01-26	Count non-code words in Rmd documents	:x:	Ben Marwick	Screenshot
WrapRmd	2019-01-26	Wrap selected R Markdown text but don't insert lines breaks into inline R code	:x:	TJ Mahr
xaringan	2019-01-26	Create HTML5 slides with R Markdown and the JavaScript library 'remark.js'	:white_check_mark:	Yihui Xie et al.	Slides

Technology Stack

'rmd' is developed in R language.

Roadmap

The main structure of 'rmd' is more or less done. In the future, two things will be maintained.

1. Keep an eye on useful R markdown packages and add the new ones into the R markdown family.
2. Collect nice tools and maintain the addin list.

How to contribute?

Anyone can get in touch with me by leaving me a reply on steem @dapeng or on https://github.com/pzhaonet/rmd.