linl: Linl is not Letter
Motivation
The LaTeX Letter class is very useful for simple letters. As suchletters are also somewhat standardized, they make for excellentcandidates for use by Markdown.
This package leans on earlier work byAaron Wolen in hispandoc-letterrepository, and extends it for use from R via thermarkdownpackage.
Example
Skeleton
The skeleton creates a very simple letter. This shows the (complete)source on the left and the rendered pdf on the right:
Vignette
The vignette example is a little more featureful and shows how toincluded a letterhead on-demand, as well as a signature. Both of theseare driven by simple YAML headers as seen on the left:
Status
The package is fully working, and onCRAN.
Usage
Use the standard
install.packages("linl")to install it from CRAN, and then use as a Markdown template viaRStudio, or use code such as
library(rmarkdown)draft("myletter.Rmd",template="pdf",package="linl",edit=FALSE)render("myletter.Rmd")to create a first draft of a newmyletter.Rmd.
Requirements
Beyond the R package dependencies, a workingpandocbinary is needed. RStudio installs its own copy, otherwise do what isneeded on your OS (i.e., something likesudo apt-get install pandoc pandoc-citeproc).
The pdf mode should only require a basic LaTeX installation.
Authors
Dirk Eddelbuettel and Aaron Wolen.
License
GPL-3 for this package, the work inpandoc-letter, aswell as underlying Pandoc template.
Initially created: Sun Oct 15 16:26:45 CDT 2017
Last modified: Sun May 26 10:02:51 CDT 2024