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Converting LaTeX Legacy R Journal Articles into R Markdown Articles using texor and rebib

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In 2021 the R Journal made a change of templates for article writing to R Markdown instead of LaTeX. The reasons were to encourage better reproducibility of articles using dynamic documents, enable interactivity in articles, and to make the articles more accessible for print-disabled readers. A resulting challenge was to explore whether legacy articles might be suitably converted into HTML output. This paper describes the process of converting an R Journal article from LaTeX to HTML format via R Markdown, and the two new R packages, texor and rebib, that can be used to achieve the conversion.

Source: The R Journal

DOI: 10.32614/rj-2025-022

Authors: Abhishek Ulayil, Dianne Cook, Heather Turner, Mitchell O'Hara-Wild, Christophe Dervieux

Institutions: Monash University, University of Warwick, Posit Software, PBC (United States)

Language: English

Topic: Data Analysis with R

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Awards: G2065497945, Sustainability and EDI (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) in the R Project