officedown is bringing some officer features into R markdown documents.

1. Pimp your R markdown documents… to produce Word documents.

The package is to be used when you want to use R Markdown documents to produce Microsoft Word documents but also want options for landscape orientation, with narrow margins, with formatted text, when some paragraphs have to be centered.

2. Add vector graphics into your PowerPoint document. This feature let’s you add rvg in you presentation.

Usage

use RStudio Menu to create a document from officedown template.

It will create an R markdown document, parameter output is to be set to officedown::rdocx_document. Also package officedown need to be loaded.

---
date: "2019-11-12"
author: "David Gohel"
title: "Document title"
output: 
  officedown::rdocx_document
---


```r
library(officedown)
#> Warning: S3 method 'print.dml' was declared in NAMESPACE but not found
```

Tags have been made to make less verbose and easier use. Some are expected parameters (i.e. CHUNK_TEXT, BLOCK_MULTICOL_STOP). These parameters need to be defined as inline yaml.

Chunks

Chunks are to be used in a paragraph in an R markdown document.

Output type	Tag name	R function	Has args
chunk	CHUNK_PAGEBREAK	chunk_page_break	no
chunk	CHUNK_TEXT	chunk_styled_text	yes
chunk	CHUNK_TEXT_STYLE	chunk_text_stylenamed	yes
chunk	CHUNK_COLUMNBREAK	chunk_column_break	no
chunk		add_paragraph_settings	yes

This text will be followed by a break page.<!---CHUNK_PAGEBREAK--->

`r add_paragraph_settings(align='center', paddings = list(t= 120, b= 20))`
This paragraph will be centered and wil have a 120 pts top padding and 20 bottom padding.
Text can be styles: <!---CHUNK_TEXT{str: 'officedown', color: 'orange'}---> is really cool.

Blocks

Blocks are to be used as a paragraph in an R markdown document.

Output type	Tag name	R function	Has args
block	BLOCK_TOC	block_toc	yes
block	BLOCK_POUR_DOCX	block_pour_docx	yes

The following will be transformed as a table of content:

<!---BLOCK_TOC--->

And the following will pour the content of an external docx file into the produced document:

<!---BLOCK_POUR_DOCX{docx_file:'path/to/docx'}--->

Sections blocks

Section blocks are also blocks but they need to be used in pairs:

• landscape orientation

Tag name	R function	Has args
BLOCK_LANDSCAPE_START	block_section_continuous	no
BLOCK_LANDSCAPE_STOP	block_section_landscape	no

The following will be in a separated section with landscape orientation

<!---BLOCK_LANDSCAPE_START--->

Blah blah blah.

<!---BLOCK_LANDSCAPE_STOP--->

• section with columns

Tag name	R function	Has args
BLOCK_MULTICOL_START	block_section_continuous	no
BLOCK_MULTICOL_STOP	block_section_columns	yes

The following will be in a separated section with 2 columns:

<!---BLOCK_MULTICOL_START--->

Blah blah blah on column 1.

<!---CHUNK_COLUMNBREAK--->
Blah blah blah on column 2.


<!---BLOCK_MULTICOL_STOP{widths: [3,3], space: 0.2, sep: true}--->

Working with officedown

Installation

You can install officedown from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("davidgohel/officedown")

Supported formats require some minimum pandoc versions:

R Markdown output	pandoc version	comment
Microsoft Word	>= 2.0	require a recent RStudio (> june 2018)
Microsoft PowerPoint	>= 2.4	require pandoc installation