A demonstration of the \LaTeX class file for Statistics in Medicine with Rmarkdown

In rticles: Article Formats for R Markdown

The Article Header Information

YAML header:

output:
  rticles::sim_article:
    keep_tex: TRUE

Configure the YAML header including the following elements:

• title: Title

• author: List of author(s) containing name and num

• address: List containing num and org for defining author affiliations

• presentaddress: Not sure what they mean with this

• corres: Author and address for correspondence

• authormark: Short author list for header

• received, revised, accepted: dates of submission, revision, and acceptance of the manuscript

• abstract: Limited to 250 words

• keywords: Up to 6 keywords

• bibliography: BibTeX .bib file

• classoption: options of the WileyNJD-v2 class

• longtable: set to true to include the longtable package, used by default from pandoc to convert markdown to \LaTeX code

Remarks

1. In authormark use et al. if there are three or more authors.

2. Note the use of num to link names and addresses.

3. For submitting a double-spaced manuscript, add doublespace as an option to a classoption line in the YAML header: classoption: doublespace.

4. Keywords are separated by semicolons.

The Body of the Article

Mathematics

Use mathematics in Rmarkdown as usual.

Figures and Tables

Figures are supported from R code:

```r"} x = rnorm(10) y = rnorm(10) plot(x, y)

...and can be referenced (Figure \ref{fig:plot}) by including the `\\label{}` tag in the `fig.cap` attribute of the R chunk: `fig.cap = "Fancy Caption\\label{fig:plot}"`. It is a quirky hack at the moment, see [here](https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/323).

Analogously, use Rmarkdown to produce tables as usual:

```r
if (!require("xtable")) install.packages("xtable")
xt <- xtable(head(cars), caption = "A table", label = "tab:table")
print(xt, comment = FALSE)

Referenced via \ref{tab:table}. You can also use the YAML option header-includes to includes custom \LaTeX packages for tables (keep in mind that pandoc uses longtables by default, and it is hardcoded; some things may require including the package longtable). E.g., using ctable:

header-includes:
- \usepackage{ctable}

Then, just write straight-up \LaTeX code and reference is as usual (\ref{tab:ctable}):

\ctable[cap = {Short caption},
        caption = {A long, long, long, long, long caption for this table.},
        label={tab:ctable},]
        {cc}
        {
        \tnote[$\ast$]{Footnote 1}
        \tnote[$\dagger$]{Other footnote}
        \tnote[b]{Mistakes are possible.}
        }{
        \FL
        COL 1\tmark[a] & COL 2\tmark[$\ast$]
        \ML
        6.92\tmark[$\dagger$] & 0.09781 \\
        6.93\tmark[$\dagger$] & 0.09901 \\
        97 & 2000
        \LL
}

It is also possible to set the YAML option longtable: true and use markdown tables (or the knitr::kable function): knitr::kable(head(cars)) produces the same table as the xtable example presented before.

Cross-referencing

The use of the Rmarkdown equivalent of the \LaTeX cross-reference system for figures, tables, equations, etc., is encouraged (using [@<name>], equivalent of \ref{<name>} and \label{<name>}). That works well for citations in Rmarkdown, not so well for figures and tables. In that case, it is possible to revert to standard \LaTeX syntax.

Double Spacing

If you need to double space your document for submission please use the doublespace option in the header.

Bibliography

Link a .bib document via the YAML header, and bibliography will be printed at the very end (as usual). The default bibliography style is provided by Wiley as in WileyNJD-AMA.bst, do not delete that file.

Use the Rmarkdown equivalent of the \LaTeX citation system using [@<name>]. Example: [@Taylor1937], [@Knupp1999; @Kamm2000].

To include all citation from the .bib file, add \nocite{*} before the end of the document.

Further information

All \LaTeX enviroments supported by the main template are supported here as well; see the .tex sample file here for more details and example.

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