Preparing, Checking, and Submitting Articles to the 'R Journal'

Create an 'R Journal' 'Rmarkdown' template article, that will generate html and pdf versions of your paper. Check that the paper folder has all the required components needed for submission. Examples of 'R Journal' publications can be found at < https://journal.r-project.org>.

rjtools

The goal of rjtools is to make it easier for AUTHORS of R Journal articles to

1. create a new paper from a template that will produce both html and pdf versions in the format needed by the journal, and
2. to run various checks on their paper, that it satisfies various requirements, in preparation for submitting it to the journal.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("rjournal/rjtools")

Getting started with a new article

To create an article template under the project directory:

library(rjtools)
create_article(name = "quokka-bilby")

To examine how the papers in this format would look in an R Journal issue, take a look at the June 2021 issue https://journal.r-project.org/issues/2021-1/. Particularly articles by Wang, and two articles by Kane, and the editorial.

• To learn more on the article creation, read Create an R Journal Article.

• For more information on the R Journal format, specifically how to create figures, tables, among others with the new format, read More details on the R Journal format.

• The rendered template article is showcased in The Article Template.

Checking that your paper satisfies various conditions

Explore the various check_XXX functions that will check the format of your article, and some submission requirements.

• See Check your Article Before Submission for more on this.

Current problem with pandoc

Please render the article using these lines:

pandoc::pandoc_activate(version = '3.1.6')
rmarkdown::render("quokka-bilby.Rmd", output_format = "all")

in your R Console. Also make sure the output in the yaml is set as:

output: 
  rjtools::rjournal_pdf_article:
    toc: no
  rjtools::rjournal_web_article:
    self_contained: yes
    toc: no