Converting Sweave to Rmarkdown using texor package
- Mentors
- Heather Turner, Abhishek M Ulayil
- Organization
- R project for statistical computing
- Technologies
- lua, r, latex, R-Markdown, Sweave
- Topics
- Document Formatting, Sweave to R-Markdown
This project aims to expand the texor package by incorporating features to convert Sweave (.Rnw) files into R Markdown effectively, while preserving the integrity of executable code segments. This project holds the potential to greatly assist numerous R packages that currently utilize Sweave-based vignettes by facilitating their migration to R Markdown. A particular target of this project will be packages that have used the Journal of Statistical Software template to create package vignettes - there are over 200 such examples on CRAN. These articles are expected to be similar to R Journal articles in the sense of making heavy use of LaTeX markup for mathematics, algorithms, tables, etc, that would benefit from the functionality of texor. Therefore, outputs from this project could prove valuable to journals or authors that wish to produce HTML versions of articles created with Sweave.