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litedown

A Lightweight Version of R Markdown

v0.9 · Dec 18, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Render R Markdown to Markdown (without using 'knitr'), and Markdown to lightweight HTML or 'LaTeX' documents with the 'commonmark' package (instead of 'Pandoc'). Some missing Markdown features in 'commonmark' are also supported, such as raw HTML or 'LaTeX' blocks, 'LaTeX' math, superscripts, subscripts, footnotes, element attributes, and appendices, but not all 'Pandoc' Markdown features are (or will be) supported. With additional JavaScript and CSS, you can also create HTML slides and articles. This package can be viewed as a trimmed-down version of R Markdown and 'knitr'. It does not aim at rich Markdown features or a large variety of output formats (the primary formats are HTML and 'LaTeX'). Book and website projects of multiple input documents are also supported.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies commonmark xfun markdown BradleyTerry2 RWsearch Rd2roxygen ageutils atime bigANNOY bsplus ciecl easybio fastymd flashr grates heplots incidence2 +12 more reverse deps litedown

Version History

new 0.9 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.9 ← 0.8 diff Dec 17, 2025
updated 0.8 ← 0.7 diff Nov 1, 2025
updated 0.7 ← 0.6 diff Apr 7, 2025
updated 0.6 ← 0.5 diff Feb 26, 2025
updated 0.5 ← 0.4 diff Jan 6, 2025
updated 0.4 ← 0.3 diff Nov 5, 2024
updated 0.3 ← 0.2 diff Oct 16, 2024
updated 0.2 ← 0.1 diff Sep 7, 2024
new 0.1 Aug 19, 2024