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Reproducible thesis writing with R Markdown

Dr. Priyanga D. Talagala

Research Lounge Meet, University of Moratuwa

18/10/2022

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bookdown R package

  • A open-source R package to facilitate writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown.

  • Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents ]

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Learn more about bookdown:

https://pkgs.rstudio.com/bookdown/

You can install the package from CRAN as follows:

install.packages("bookdown")

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thesisdown

Inspired by the bookdown package

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Prerequisites

  • To compile PDF documents using R, you are going to need to have LaTeX installed.

  • By far the easiest way to install LaTeX on any platform is with the tinytex R package:

install.packages(c('tinytex', 'rmarkdown'))
tinytex::install_tinytex()
# after restarting RStudio, confirm that you have LaTeX with
tinytex:::is_tinytex()
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Prerequisites

  • To compile PDF documents using R, you are going to need to have LaTeX installed.

  • By far the easiest way to install LaTeX on any platform is with the tinytex R package:

install.packages(c('tinytex', 'rmarkdown'))
tinytex::install_tinytex()
# after restarting RStudio, confirm that you have LaTeX with
tinytex:::is_tinytex()
  • Install the bookdown and thesisdown packages.
if (!require("remotes")) 
  install.packages("remotes", repos = "https://cran.rstudio.org")
remotes::install_github("rstudio/bookdown")
remotes::install_github("ismayc/thesisdown")
  • Note that {thesisdown} is not available on CRAN at the moment and that’s why install.packages("thesisdown") won’t work.
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Tip

You may need to restart RStudio at this point for the following dialog to show up.

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File > New Project > New Directory

Then select Thesis Project using thesisdown from the dropdown

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Give your project a name and specify where you’d like the files to appear

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Directory structure

index.Rmd: Contains your YAML (metadata) that will tell bookdown how to render your book

.Rmd files that comprise the body of your book

thesis.bib is a bib file containing your references. Most popular reference management tools have the option to export your references to a .bib file.

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Generated thesis

To learn more about different thesis templates visit https://github.com/ismayc/thesisdown

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Coming Soon !!

morathesisdown

An R Markdown thesis template for the University of Moratuwa

Development version at : "https://github.com/RETINALAB/morathesisdown"

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morathesisdown

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pridiltal and thiyangt

Acknowledgements:

This work was supported in part by RETINA research lab funded by the OWSD, a program unit of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

All rights reserved by Thiyanga S. Talagala and Priyanga D Talagala

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bookdown R package

  • A open-source R package to facilitate writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown.

  • Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents ]

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