yihui / litedown

A lightweight version of R Markdown

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R Markdown Reimagined

This package provides a trimmed-down and reimagined implementation of R Markdown. It is much more lightweight, at the price of dropping some features. It does not depend on the R package knitr or the system package Pandoc.

Please consider this package experimental for now. The documentation is also very incomplete and still under development.

Markdown rendering

The function litedown::mark() is based on the R package commonmark, and renders Markdown to various output formats supported by commonmark, which are primarily HTML and LaTeX. MS Office formats are not supported.

Knitting

R Markdown documents need to be knitted to Markdown before being rendered to a target output format. The function litedown::fuse() plays a role similar to knitr::knit() and rmarkdown::render(). It fuses program code with narratives, i.e., it executes code in the source document and interweaves results with narratives in the output document.

Previewing

Try litedown::roam().

Scope

We want to limit the scope of this package. Most planned features have been implemented so far. Please feel free to file feature requests anyway, but we may be a little conservative when considering them (we will take votes into consideration, so please upvote features you like).

License

The litedown package is licensed under MIT.