UNHCR Branded Templates for R Markdown Documents

Create United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) branded documents, presentations, and reports using R Markdown templates. This package provides customized formats that align with UNHCR's official brand guidelines for creating professional PDF reports, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and HTML outputs.

unhcrdown

Streamline your document creation process with the {unhcrdown} R package. It provides a comprehensive set of templates designed to align your reports and presentations with UNHCR’s brand guidelines. This package offers ready-to-use R Markdown templates for various document types, ensuring consistent UNHCR visual identity across your communications.

Features

A collection of professional templates following UNHCR brand guidelines
Ready-to-use formats for reports, presentations, and websites
Easy-to-use functions that work seamlessly with R Markdown
Consistent styling across all document types

Installation

Get started by installing the development version from GitHub with:

# If pak is not yet installed, uncomment the following line:
# install.packages("pak")

pak::pkg_install("unhcr-dataviz/unhcrdown")

Usage

The {unhcrdown} templates are designed for R Markdown projects, any of the available format can simply be added to output parameter of the R Markdown yaml header. For example:

---
title: "UNHCR Branded Report"
author: "First Last Name"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: unhcrdown::paged_report
---

Available Formats

PDF Reports: Two HTML to PDF options:

output: unhcrdown::paged_report  # Full template with cover
# or
output: unhcrdown::paged_simple  # Streamlined version

Word Documents: Professional reports using officedown::rdocx_document
```
output: unhcrdown::docx_simple
```
PowerPoint: Presentation slides
```
output: unhcrdown::pptx_slides
```
HTML Slides: Web presentations
```
output: unhcrdown::html_slides
```
HTML Page: Web based documents
```
output: unhcrdown::html_page
```

RStudio Integration

Create new documents directly from RStudio:

File → New File → R Markdown
Select “From Template”
Choose any {unhcrdown} template

Additional UNHCR Tools

unhcrthemes: UNHCR branded ggplot2 theme and color palettes
refugees: Access to UNHCR Refugee Data Finder API
quarto-html-unhcr: Quarto extension for UNHCR branded HTML documents
quarto-revealjs-unhcr: Quarto extension for UNHCR branded presentations
Data Visualization Platform: UNHCR’s data visualization guidelines and tools

Acknowledgements

We extend our gratitude to the creators of the pagedown package that influenced the development of unhcrdown.

Contribution and Code of Conduct

Contributions to {unhcrdown} are highly valued. To ensure a welcoming and inclusive community, we follow our Contributor Code of Conduct. If you have suggestions, uncover bugs, or envision new features, kindly submit an issue on GitHub.