Styling knitr reports

[wibeasley]

@andkov, you may remember @genevamarshall. She's been getting into reports recently and created some neat ones with knitrBootstrap. I'm a little concerned that there hasn't been an real development since spring 2014. Do you know of anything similar that's still being developed? I'd hate for her to invest time into learning it, if it's not going to be maintained. Her preliminary stuff looks great so far.

Here are some links, if that helps jog your memory:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35653260/using-rmarkdown-with-css-from-cdn
• https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/theming.html#
• http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/html_document_format.html
• http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/showcase/

[andkov]

@wibeasley @genevamarshall

There were two news that I saw on twitter feeds that might be relevant.

First, there have been developments to simplify webpage publishing with GitHub pages : https://github.com/blog/2289-publishing-with-github-pages-now-as-easy-as-1-2-3. One does not need to create a gh-pages branch, but can publish directly from the master.

Secondly, @yihui recently released a new package for publishing presentations https://github.com/yihui/xaringan. See a tutorial-documentation here. I haven't been able to test it out yet, so i'm looking forward to hearing any feedback.

As for the reports themselves, I didn't see anything, which is, of course, can't rule out there there are no developments. However, i'm monitoring feeds of some of the Rstudio employees and other data scientist, will let you know if anything catches my eye in the respect you've mentioned.

[genevaneva]

Thanks, @andkov and @wibeasley ! The first link (Publishing with GitHub Pages) sounds like it would be really convenient once we're ready to put everything online. I wonder if there's some way we could get it to generate the html without needing to publish immediately.

Wow that xaringan package is the first one I've seen with so many manga references...or with any. I'm not quite ready to go down the rabbit hole for presentations, but it looks really cool. :)

[genevaneva]

@wibeasley have you used Shiny for static reports?

I guess I was under the impression initially that everything on Shiny needed to be interactive with bells and whistles and slider bars and ... I only saw your MIECHV example, which seems pretty complex, but as I'm looking through the gallery, it appears you can insert .md, .html, .txt, whatever. Do you think it's a good venue for the kinds of reports we're doing?

I like that you can specify your layout just like a regular webpage (as opposed to maybe being able to do that for your plots using the ggplot2 grids, which would be basically unreadable on a smaller screen...I assume?).

I see that using shinythemes , you can employ the same templates used in knitrBootstrap.