Pandoc-class: Reporting with Pandoc

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Reporting with Pandoc

Description

This R5 reference class can hold bunch of elements (text or R objects) from which it tries to create a Pandoc's markdown text file. Exporting the report to several formats (like: PDF, docx, odt etc. - see Pandoc's documentation) is also possible, see examples below.

Arguments

...	this is an R5 object without any direct params but it should be documented, right?

Methods

export(Class)

Returns the result of coercing the object to Class. No effect on the object itself.

Examples

## Not run: 
## Initialize a new Pandoc object
myReport <- Pandoc$new()

## Add author, title and date of document
myReport$author <- 'Anonymous'
myReport$title  <- 'Demo'

## Or it could be done while initializing
myReport <- Pandoc$new('Anonymous', 'Demo')

## Add some free text
myReport$add.paragraph('Hello there, this is a really short tutorial!')

## Add maybe a header for later stuff
myReport$add.paragraph('# Showing some raw R objects below')

## Adding a short matrix
myReport$add(matrix(5,5,5))

## Or a table with even # TODO: caption
myReport$add.paragraph('Hello table:')
myReport$add(table(mtcars$am, mtcars$gear))

## Or a "large" data frame which barely fits on a page
myReport$add(mtcars)

## And a simple linear model with Anova tables
ml <- with(lm(mpg ~ hp + wt), data = mtcars)
myReport$add(ml)
myReport$add(anova(ml))
myReport$add(aov(ml))

## And do some principal component analysis at last
myReport$add(prcomp(USArrests))

## Sorry, I did not show how Pandoc deals with plots:
myReport$add(plot(1:10)) # TODO: caption

## Want to see the report? Just print it:
myReport

## Exporting to PDF (default)
myReport$export()

## Or to docx in tempdir:
myReport$format <- 'docx'
myReport$export(tempfile())

## You do not want to see the generated report after generation?
myReport$export(open = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

pander documentation built on March 18, 2022, 6:39 p.m.