R Markdown Output Formats for Storytelling

R Markdown output formats based on JavaScript libraries such as 'Scrollama' (< https://github.com/russellsamora/scrollama>) for storytelling.

rolldown

Rolldown is an R Markdown extension that builds scroll-driven HTML documents for storytelling, a.k.a scrollytelling, powered by JavaScript libraries. Currently, only Scrollama is supported.

Installation

install.packages("rolldown", repos = c("https://yihui.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

Get started

You can get started with some built-in R Markdown templates in this package. If you use the RStudio IDE, you can create a new R Markdown document from File -> New File -> R Markdown -> From Template. Then find a rolldown template from the list. If you do not use RStudio, you may use the rmarkdown::draft() function to create a new R Markdown document, e.g.,

# the basic style
rmarkdown::draft('story.Rmd', template = 'scrollama-document', package = 'rolldown')

# the sidebar layout
rmarkdown::draft('story.Rmd', template = 'scrollama-sidebar', package = 'rolldown')