Installation

You can install and use rticles from CRAN as follows:

install.packages("rticles")

If you wish to install the development version from GitHub (which often contains new article formats), you can do this:

remotes::install_github("rstudio/rticles")

Overview

The rticles package provides a suite of custom R Markdown LaTeX formats and templates for various formats, including:

Journal	Contributors	Pull request	Output format
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery	@ramnathv	#8	acm_article()
ACS	@yufree	#15	acs_article()
AEA: American Economic Association	@sboysel	#86	aea_articles()
AGU	@eliocamp	#199	agu_article()
AMS: American Meteorological Society	@yufree	#96	ams_article()
ASA: American Statistical Association		#111	asa_article()
arXiv pre-prints based on George Kour's template	@alexpghayes	#236	arxiv_article()
Bioinformatics	@ShixiangWang	#297	bioinformatics_article()
Biometrics	@daltonhance	#170	biometrics_article()
Bulletin de l'AMQ	@desautm	#145	amq_article()
Copernicus Publications	@nuest	#172	copernicus_article()
CTeX			ctex()
Elsevier	@cboettig	#27	elsevier_article()
Frontiers	@muschellij2	#211	frontiers_article()
IEEE Transaction	@Emaasit, @espinielli, @nathanweeks, @DunLug	#97, #169, #227, #263, #264, #265	ieee_article()
JOSS: Journal of Open Source Software JOSE: Journal of Open Source Education	@noamross	#229	joss_article()
JSS: Journal of Statistical Software			jss_article()
MDPI	@dleutnant	#147	mdpi_article()
MNRAS: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	@oleskiewicz	#175	mnras_article()
OUP: Oxford University Press	@dmkaplan	#284	oup_articles()
PeerJ: Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences	@zkamvar	#127	peerj_article()
PLOS	@sjmgarnier	#12	plos_article()
PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	@cboettig	#72	pnas_article()
RSOS: Royal Society Open Science	@ThierryO	#135	rsos_article()
RSS: Royal Statistical Society	@carlganz	#110	rss_article()
Sage	@oguzhanogreden	#181	sage_article()
Springer	@strakaps	#164	springer_article()
SIM: Statistics in Medicine	@ellessenne	#231	sim_article()
Taylor & Francis	@dleutnant	#218	tf_article()
The R Journal			rjournal_article()

Under the hood, LaTeX templates are used to ensure that documents conform precisely to submission standards. At the same time, composition and formatting can be done using lightweight markdown syntax, and R code and its output can be seamlessly included using knitr.

Using rticles requires the prerequisites described below. You can get most of these automatically by installing the latest release of RStudio (instructions for using rticles without RStudio are also provided).

Using rticles from RStudio

To use rticles from RStudio:

1. Install the latest RStudio.

2. Install the rticles package.

3. Use the New R Markdown dialog to create an article from one of the templates:

   

Using rticles outside of RStudio

1. Install pandoc using the instructions for your platform.

2. Install the rticles packages.

3. Use the rmarkdown::draft() function to create articles:

   rmarkdown::draft("MyJSSArticle.Rmd", template = "jss_article", package = "rticles")
   rmarkdown::draft("MyRJournalArticle", template = "rjournal_article", package = "rticles")