https://github.com/jefferis/paperutils

R package with utility functions to support preparation of journal articles
https://github.com/jefferis/paperutils

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R package with utility functions to support preparation of journal articles

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jefferis/paperutils
• Owner: jefferis
• Created: 2013-05-19T16:26:49.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-09-18T17:04:00.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-16T03:33:15.973Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: bibtex, lyx, pdftk, pdftotext, r
• Language: R
• Homepage: http://jefferis.github.io/paperutils
• Size: 588 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# paperutils

R package with utility functions to support preparation of journal articles

## Introduction

We use a toolchain consisting of

1. LyX + pdflatex

2. Bibdesk (or Jabref etc)

3. Adobe Illustrator

4. R

to prepare our journal articles for submission. This package contains functions that are useful for checking which files are currently linked in the master LyX document (e.g. to ensure they are gitified). It also contains functions to work with the output from pdflatex

## Installation

### System Dependencies

  * [pdftk](http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/)

  * ghostscript e.g. from [mactex](http://tug.org/mactex)

  * perl

### R Dependencies

The package [scholar](https://github.com/jkeirstead/scholar) is necessary for 

some bibliography related functions. 

However currently the CRAN version is 

missing the ability to specify a number of publications to return for each

author, so that only 20 can be returned. Therefore the package installs the 

latest version from GitHub.

### Package Install

Install straight from github with Hadley Wickham's 

[devtools](https://github.com/hadley/devtools) package:

```r

if(!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")

devtools::install_github("jefferis/paperutils")

```