linl: Linl is not Letter
Motivation
The LaTeX Letter class is very useful for simple letters. As such letters are also somewhat standardized, they make for excellent candidates for use by Markdown.
This package leans on earlier work by Aaron Wolen in his pandoc-letter repository, and extends it for use from R via the rmarkdown package.
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 to included a letterhead on-demand, as well as a signature. Both of these are driven by simple YAML headers as seen on the left:
Status
The package is fully working, and on CRAN.
Usage
Use the standard
install.packages("linl")to install it from CRAN, and then use as a Markdown template via RStudio, 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 new myletter.Rmd.
Requirements
Beyond the R package dependencies, a working pandoc
binary is needed. RStudio installs its own copy, otherwise do what is
needed on your OS (i.e., something like
sudo 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 in pandoc-letter, as well as underlying Pandoc template.