
output : pdf_document : citation_package : natbib keep_tex : true fig_caption : true latex_engine : pdflatex template : ~/ Dropbox / miscelanea / svm - r - markdown - templates / svm - latex - ms.tex title : "A Pandoc Markdown Article Starter and Template" thanks : "Replication files are available on the author's Github account." author : - name : Steven V.

I provide a sample YAML metadata largely taken from this exact document and explain it below. R Markdown uses YAML for its metadata and the fields differ from what an author would use for a Beamer presentation. The lion’s share of a R Markdown document will be raw text, though the front matter may be the most important part of the document. Rmd file, the example PDF, and my academic manuscript template on my Github at this repository. This type of “dynamic document” allows for the author to write the manuscript and reproduce the analysis in one fell swoop. The PDF also contains examples how to execute R within the Markdown document. This PDF mirrors the post here but contains an extended discussion at the beginning of what R Markdown can do for issues of workflow. I show what my Markdown academic manuscript template resembles in a full PDF thereafter. I start with the YAML properties of my template and then discuss some basic Markdown syntax.

In what follows, I discuss the properties of a template I wrote to render my PDFs and how LaTeX users could incorporate it into their own research workflow. I’ve started writing all my manuscripts now in R Markdown, which eliminates both markup (hence: “Markdown”) and allows me to better work with collaborators. A manuscript may require a careful and manual rewrite of the manuscript to better conform to the changes in the analysis. My preambles kept getting bigger and messier with each successive manuscript. My manuscripts were also succumbing to “preamble creep”. I’ve discussed a previous move from LaTeX’ Beamer package to R Markdown, but was otherwise deferential to standard LaTeX for documents.

Use a wrapper for LaTeX instead, like R Markdown. You should consider no longer using LaTeX as a front-end for your manuscripts. The frontmatter to an R Markdown document. Issues with this template can be best addressed on the project's Github. An Updated Version of This Template is in.
