Converting R Journal latex documents to Rmarkdown with texor

Background

This project builds on the 2022 texor and rebib projects, with the goal to convert legacy R Journal articles into the new Rmarkdown template format.

Related work

texor, rebib, rjtools

Details of your coding project

This project will continue the development of the texor package. It will involve:

• examining the tests done on the past issue of the R Journal at https://github.com/rjournal/paper_conversion and make changes to texor to handle common issues.
• writing documentation of the methodology used in texor and how to use it.
• Convert as many of the legacy issues as possible.
• Consider generalising to converting into routine Rmarkdown or even quarto documents.

Expected impact

This work will be generally useful, by making older articles of the R Journal more accessible, and helping new authors convert from latex to Rmarkdown.

Mentors

• EVALUATING MENTOR: Dianne Cook [email protected] is the author and maintainer of multiple R packages.
• Other Dev <[email protected]> is an author of many R packages, and developer of the rjtools package.

Tests

• Have contributor