build_usepackage: Build usepackage command for TeX document

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Build usepackage command for TeX document

Description

input TeX package name and optional package functions to create usepackage call

Usage

build_usepackage(pkg, options = NULL, uselibrary = NULL, chk.inst = FALSE)

Arguments

pkg	character, name of TeX package
options	character, name(s) of options to use in the package
uselibrary	character, part of document preamble to specify a uselibrary call related to package
chk.inst	logical, invokes a check to see if pkg is currently installed on system (default FALSE)

Details

if options and uselibrary are NULL (default) then only the call for the package is returned. See the TeX wikibook for more information https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Document_Structure#Packages on the usepackage command. If chk.inst finds that the package is not installed on system function returns NULL.

Value

character

Examples

build_usepackage(pkg = 'xcolor')
build_usepackage(pkg = 'xcolor',options = 'usenames')

#build many at once using mapply

geom.opts=c('paperwidth=35cm','paperheight=35cm','left=2.5cm','top=2.5cm')
use.opts="\\usetikzlibrary{mindmap,backgrounds}"

unlist(mapply(build_usepackage,
pkg =        list('times','geometry','tikz'),
options=     list(NULL   ,geom.opts ,NULL),
uselibrary = list(NULL   ,NULL      ,use.opts)
))

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