find_file <- function(template, file) { template <- system.file("rmarkdown", "templates", template, file, package = "rticles") if (template == "") { stop("Couldn't find template file ", template, "/", file, call. = FALSE) } template } find_resource <- function(template, file) { find_file(template, file.path("resources", file)) } knitr_fun <- function(name) utils::getFromNamespace(name, 'knitr') output_asis <- knitr_fun('output_asis') merge_list <- function(x, y) { fun <- knitr_fun('merge_list') fun(as.list(x), y) } #' Render a pandoc template. #' #' This is a hacky way to access the pandoc templating engine. #' #' @param metadata A named list containing metadata to pass to template. #' @param template Path to a pandoc template. #' @param output Path to save output. #' @return (Invisibly) The path of the generate file. #' @examples #' x <- rticles:::template_pandoc( #' list(preamble = "%abc", filename = "wickham"), #' rticles:::find_resource("rjournal_article", "RJwrapper.tex"), #' tempfile() #' ) #' if (interactive()) file.show(x) #' @noRd template_pandoc <- function(metadata, template, output, verbose = FALSE) { tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".md") on.exit(unlink(tmp)) cat("---\n", file = tmp) cat(yaml::as.yaml(metadata), file = tmp, append = TRUE) cat("---\n", file = tmp, append = TRUE) cat("\n", file = tmp, append = TRUE) rmarkdown::pandoc_convert(tmp, "markdown", output = output, options = paste0("--template=", template), verbose = verbose) invisible(output) } # Call rmarkdown::pdf_document and mark the return value as inheriting pdf_document inherit_pdf_document <- function(...) { fmt <- rmarkdown::pdf_document(...) fmt$inherits <- "pdf_document" fmt } # Helper function to create a custom format derived from pdf_document # that includes a custom LaTeX template and custom CSL definition pdf_document_format <- function(..., format, template, csl) { # base format fmt <- inherit_pdf_document(..., template = find_resource(format, template)) # add csl to pandoc_args fmt$pandoc$args <- c(fmt$pandoc$args, "--csl", rmarkdown::pandoc_path_arg(find_resource(format, csl))) # return format fmt }