Why have I never seen this website before??
https://ropensci.org/
It has a great list of packages and a peer review system.
Maybe I should join … sometime.
I will need to look through their package catelog some more. Here are a few packages that relate to my interests and that I expect to find useful1:
Package Author Description bib2df Philipp Ottolinger Parse a BibTeX File to a Data Frame (works both ways) getlandsat Scott Chamberlain Get Landsat 8 Data from Amazon Public Data Sets gitignore Philippe Massicotte Create Useful .
I am really enjoying the power of bookdown to produce great documents that can be read as websites (i.e. html or gitbook output), pdf (generated via LaTeX), or other. However, when you start wanting to format your tables conflicts can occur causing all of some of the book to not render. Below I provide a quick solution.
The kableExtra package provides well documented and excellent features for formatting tables into whatever format you are generating.
There are a few things that I continually need to lookup how to do in R’s Bookdown
Cross Referencing I am constantly forgetting how to cross-reference in bookdown and rmarkdown. Below are some options for cross-referencing in bookdown and rmarkdown documents
Bookdown Bookdown’s referencing system is extensive. Though it can run into some trouble if sections are explicitly unnumbered using {-}.
<!-- the info in curly brackets provides a tag to link to --> ## This is a subsection {#my-sub-section} .