NEWS.md

In uiucthemes: 'R' 'Markdown' Themes for 'UIUC' Documents and Presentations

uiucthemes 0.3.1

CHANGES

• Fixed citation_package = 'none' deprecation warning by changing to citation_package = 'default' (thanks for the report @noejn2, #21)
• Bumped the dependency requirements to rmarkdown 2.2 and xaringan 0.16.0.

DOCUMENTATION

• Re-built documentation under roxygen2 7.1.0
• Modernized the README file

DEPLOYMENT

• Switched from using TravisCI to GitHub Actions for continuous integration.

uiucthemes 0.3.0

NEW

• Added the beamer_imetropolis() template that modifies the Metropolis theme to match slide deck.
  • The slides are powered by Matthias Vogelgesang's metropolis, formerly "mtheme", for Beamer.
• Added the html_imetropolis() template that provides a custom illinois-themed Metropolis slide deck.
  • The slides are powered by xaringan and Patrick Schratz's Metropolis theme port into HTML.

CHANGES

• Added an AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS file to describe the different templates in the package.
• Improved documentation on the Beamer slide decks.
• Updated contributor email.

uiucthemes 0.2.1

NEW

• Added the beamer_mil() template for the Market Information Lab (MIL) @ UIUC created by Jose Luis Rodriguez
• Added a vignette that contains screenshots of each template.

CHANGES

• Modified template naming scheme so that templates are grouped by "Illinois".
• Modified skeleton template of latex_journal_format to be more generic.

uiucthemes 0.2.0

NEW

• Added additional YAML header options such as licensing and safecol feature to beamer_illinois()
• Included a preliminary version of beamer_orange() template created by Prof. Steven Culpepper
• Developed a template off of jss style to be used for final reports with Dr. David Dalpiaz.
  • This will be updated at a later point to use bookdown's pdf_document2() option.
• Added a non-exported helper function load_resources_if_missing() that loads any required resources into the document's working directory if they are missing (e.g. ilogo.pdf).

CHANGES

• UIUC recently adopted new identity standards. This version of uiucthemes applies the new guidelines in two ways:
  1. the "Column I" logo to the "Block I" logo.
  2. Orange and Blue colors have been updated...
     • Orange: #f47f24 / rgb(244,127,36) to #d75536 / rgb(215,85,54)
     • Blue: #003c7d / rgb(0,60,125) to #1d2639 / rgb(29,38,57)
• Moved README images to tools/readme to ensure images appear on CRAN.

DEPRECATED

• The name of the uiuc_beamer() theme has changed to beamer_illinois() as a means to consistently group themes by underlying technology.

uiucthemes 0.1.1

NEW

• Added uiuc_beamer() function that enables creation of a beamer presentation with UIUC colors and identity standards.
• Enabled TravisCI integration support.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

uiucthemes documentation built on July 25, 2020, 9:07 a.m.