R Markdown - no ODT and LaTeX options as an output

3
votes

I found R markdown/knitr useful tool to document my work and generate summary document.

I work with .Rmd (R markdown) files in RStudio. It seems that knitr provide appropriate functionality to generate .odt (Open Document Text) and .tex (LaTeX) documents from .Rmd.

However, R studio allows to choose .docx, .html and .pdf formats only.

R Markdown output formats in RStudio

New R Markdown wizard in RStudio

I would like to avoid MS Word format since I prefer open standards and working under Linux.

Is it possible to add .odt and .tex options to Rstudio menu?

1
rlatexr-markdownodt
How about asking directly to RStudio: support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us – user3710546
Would there be anything wrong with using HTML, which is in theory an OS-independent format? Or could you consider converting between PDF and LaTEX format? – Tim Biegeleisen
The “pdf” option is LaTeX. Simply ensure in the options that the intermediate .tex file isn’t deleted. – Konrad Rudolph
@Pascal I received response from R Studio: support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/… – matandked

1 Answers

2
votes

It doesn't seem possible to output odt directly in RStudio, but you can always use knitr::knit to produce a markdown document and pandoc to produce the odt:

library(knitr)
knit("myDoc.Rmd")
system("pandoc myDoc.md -o myDoc.odt")

You may have to adjust the pandoc options and adapt the template to get a nice looking result.

As for latex, you can keep the tex sources when compiling to pdf with the following option in your yaml front matter:

---
output:
  pdf_document:
    keep_tex: true
---