Once in a Blue Moon, I Reached "(Github) Issue Zero" | /en/2018/07/issue-zero/

Guest *Miao YU* @ 2018-07-06 22:22:40 originally posted:

As one of current 40 repo watchers, I witnessed the whole thing happened and received the flow of "issues closed" emails yesterday ...

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Guest *Thomas Julou* @ 2018-10-07 09:36:30 originally posted:

rticles rocks indeed! :) but I'd like to follow up upon rticles' devs "not eating their own dog food"…
In brief, I'm a rather enthusiastic user of rmarkdown (after having used Sweave in its time…) for short academic documents. Lately, I decided to try writing my next scientific article all in rmarkdown. Although rticles and book down indeed lower the barrier, I was really surprised that nobody seems to have seriously taken care of handling supplementary materials; those have become such a common place (at least for experimental research)! In practice, most articles are written as short story-telling manuscripts with a few figures, and most technical descriptions of methods (and more and more analysis) are put in the "supp mat" with companion figures. Hence one need to have different figure/table numbering, to be able to cite "Fig. Sx" from the main text and vice versa, and to have a separate bibliography (either by starting ref numbers where they end in the main article or by using a prefix).
I came up with a quick and dirty template for LaTeX (not in the sense of rticles template, rather a project template) https://twitter.com/ThomasJulou/status/1046464992650891264 but I would really like to see it better integrate in rmarkdown (in particular to produce docx files)…

NB: I write this here because it is not clear to me at which level this should be best addressed… is it an issue for bookdown? for rticles? for rmarkdown?