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INBOmd

INBOmd contains templates to generate several types of documents with the corporate identity of INBO or the Flemish government. The current package has following Rmarkdown templates:

  • INBO pdf_report: reports rendered to pdf, html (gitbook style) and epub
  • INBO slides: presentations rendered to pdf
  • INBO poster: poster rendered to a A0 pdf
  • Flanders slides: presentations using the Flemish corporate identity, rendered to pdf

The templates are available in RStudio using File > New file > R Markdown > From template.

More details, including instructions for installation and usage are available at the INBOmd website.

In the wild

Below are some documents created with INBOmd

  1. https://inbo.github.io/inbomd_examples
  2. https://doi.org/10.21436/inbor.14030462
  3. https://doi.org/10.21436/inbop.14901626
  4. https://pureportal.inbo.be/portal/files/12819590/rbelgium_20170307.pdf
  5. https://doi.org/10.21436/inbor.12304086

Installation

INBOmd requires a working LaTeX distribution (for conversion of markdown to pdf). We highly recommend to use the LaTeX distribution provided by R package tinytex. Close all open R sessions and start a fresh R session. Execute the commands below. This will install the R package tinytex and the TinyTex LaTeX distribution on your machine. No admin rights are required. Although TinyTeX is a lightweight installation, it still is several 100 MB large.

update.packages(ask = FALSE, checkBuilt = TRUE)
if (!"tinytex" %in% rownames(installed.packages())) {
  install.packages("tinytex")
}
# install the TinyTeX LaTeX distribution
if (!tinytex:::is_tinytex()) {
  tinytex::install_tinytex()
}

In case the installation of TinyTeX fails on Windows, run the command below and retry to install TinyTex.

Sys.setenv(PATH = paste0(old_path, ";C:\\Windows\\system32"))

Once TinyTeX is installed, you need to restart RStudio. Then you can proceed with the installation of INBOmd.

# installation from inbo.r-universe
install.packages("INBOmd", repos = "https://inbo.r-universe.dev")

## alternative: installation from github
#if (!require("pak")) {
#  install.packages("pak")
#}
#pak::pkg_install("inbo/INBOmd", dependencies = TRUE)

# add the local latex package contained in INBOmd to the TinyTeX install
tinytex::tlmgr_conf(
  c("auxtrees", "add", system.file("local_tex", package = "INBOmd"))
)

# install some other needed latex packages
tinytex::tlmgr_install(c(
  "babel-dutch", "babel-english", "babel-french", "dvips", "helvetic",
  "hyphen-dutch", "hyphen-french", "inconsolata", "tex", "times"
))