convert LaTeX wrapper to markdown

Uses pandoc along with several lua filters found at inst/extdata/filters in texor package

Usage

convert_to_markdown(article_dir)

Arguments

article_dir

path to the directory which contains tex article

Value

creates a converted markdown file, as well as a pkg_meta.yaml file

Details

convert latex(wrapper) file to markdown

Note

pandoc (along with lua interpreter) is already installed with R-studio, hence if not using R-studio you will need to install pandoc. https://pandoc.org/installing.html @note Use pandoc version greater than or equal to 2.17

Examples

# Note This is a minimal example to execute this function
# Checking for pandoc version
# texor works with pandoc version >= 2.17
article_dir <- system.file("examples/article",
                 package = "texor")
dir.create(your_article_folder <- file.path(tempdir(), "tempdir"))
x <- file.copy(from = article_dir, to = your_article_folder,recursive = TRUE,)
your_article_path <- paste(your_article_folder,"article",sep="/")
rmarkdown::pandoc_version()
#> [1] ‘3.1.11’
texor::include_style_file(your_article_path)
#> [1] TRUE
rebib::aggregate_bibliography(your_article_path)
#> No Bib files found !
#> Cannot aggregate bibliography as there is no BibTeX bibliography
#> No Bib files found !
#> BibTeX file does not exist
#> will parse for bibliography
#> bibtex file created
texor::convert_to_markdown(your_article_path)
#> /usr/local/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS /private/var/folders/3m/p59k4qdj0f17st0gn2cmj3640000gn/T/RtmpkESNqI/tempdir/article/RJwrapper.tex --to markdown-simple_tables-pipe_tables-fenced_code_attributes --from latex --output /private/var/folders/3m/p59k4qdj0f17st0gn2cmj3640000gn/T/RtmpkESNqI/tempdir/article/RJwrapper.md -s --resource-path /private/var/folders/3m/p59k4qdj0f17st0gn2cmj3640000gn/T/RtmpkESNqI/tempdir/article --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/issue_checker.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/abs_filter.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/bib_filter.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/equation_filter.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/image_filter.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/image_caption.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/widetable_patcher.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/R_code.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/table_caption.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/conversion_compat_check.lua --lua-filter /Users/runner/work/_temp/Library/texor/bookdown_ref.lua --citeproc 
#> Detected the following packages from article:
#>   CRAN: 
#>   Bioconductor: 
#> [1] TRUE
unlink(your_article_folder,recursive = TRUE)