Using the sciRmdTheme R package: Rmarkdown Themes for Scientific Writing

The use of R Markdown and R Notebook for documenting processes, experiments and for writing reports has continued to grow in the last 5+ years. This is exciting, as more and more companies are also starting to adapt it for bookkeeping purposes. However, many of the available R markdown templates are not well-suited for professional reports and displays. Therefore, the purpose of the sciRmdTheme package is to provide more tools to help data analytists, scientists and writers in drafting professional R markdown pages.

Example output

Installation and Usage

Install from CRAN

install.packages("sciRmdTheme")

Load after installation

library("sciRmdTheme")

Demos where sciRmdTheme was used in Rmarkdown

Demo 1 - Basic default settings

simplest default settings


# simplest default settings
sciRmdTheme::set.theme()

View demo: https://coursewhiz.org/mainsite/samples/sample2.html

Download Rmd: https://coursewhiz.org/mainsite/samples/sample2.Rmd

Demo 2 - Customize theme options 

sciRmdTheme::set.theme(
  theme = "default",
  color = "purple",
  header.sticky=TRUE,
  header.image="logo.png",
  list.group.icon = "arrow",
  font.family = "Arial",
  font.color = "black",
  header.color = "darkblue"
  )

View demo: https://coursewhiz.org/mainsite/samples/sample1.html

Download Rmd: https://coursewhiz.org/mainsite/samples/sample1.Rmd

Demo 3 - No sciRmdTheme theme applied! 

# Before sciRmdTheme customizations

View demo: https://coursewhiz.org/mainsite/samples/sample3.html

Download Rmd: https://coursewhiz.org/mainsite/samples/sample3.Rmd