Author: Obinna N. Obianom
Date: 2022-06-28

# Introduction to sciRmdTheme: An R package for Styling Scientific Rmarkdown Documents

#### Obinna N. Obianom

#### 2022-06-28

The use of R Markdown and R Notebook for documenting processes, experiments and for writing reports has continued to grow in the last 5+ years. This is exciting, as more and more companies are also starting to adapt it for bookkeeping purposes. However, the available R markdown templates are not well-suited for professional reports and displays. Therefore, the purpose of the sciRmdTheme package is to provide more tools to help data analytists, scientists and writers in drafting professional R markdown pages.

## Installation and Library Attachment

The sciRmdTheme package is available on CRAN and can be installed as shown below

`install.packages(sciRmdTheme)`

Attach library

`library(sciRmdTheme)`

## Use

The sciRmdTheme can be used within the R Markdown document using an R chunk as shown below

`sciRmdTheme::set.theme()`

or by using the available options. An example of how the available options can be used is show below

    sciRmdTheme::set.theme(
      theme = "default",
      color = "purple",
      header.sticky=TRUE,
      header.image="https://coursewhiz.org/mainsite/logo.png",
      list.group.icon = "arrow",
      font.family = "Arial",
      font.color = "#333",
      header.color = "blue"
      )

## Features

- Simple user interface with adjusted letter sizing
- Ability to use wide or narrow screen display width
- Ability to set theme colors that a applied across the template
- Ability to optimize the color of the title
- Ability to add logo to the header section
- Ability to use sticky or non-sticky headers
- Image and table resizing options

## Examples and Demo Pages

View examples and demo pages at https://github.com/oobianom/sciRmdTheme View other pages created by me at https://coursewhiz.org