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Article Formats for R Markdown

1packages dependsuggested by 17
124.1Kdownloads / year
86.0%test coverage
11/13flavors OK

Overview

About
Maintained by Christophe DervieuxCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

A suite of custom R Markdown formats and templates for authoring journal articles and conference submissions.

Changes in 0.27
  • joss_article() now correctly works as base_format for bookdown::pdf_book() (thanks, @mlysy, #564).
  • oup_article() now supports also acknowledgments in addition to acknowledgements as the original OUP LaTeX template (thanks, @dmkaplan2000, #563).
  • Update resources for copernicus_article() to version 7.8 from 18 March 2024 (@RLumSK) and fix issue #565 reported by @colinasmith
  • Update tf_article() template to latest bundle update from InteractCADLaTeX v1.04 - May 2023.
  • thanks: true will now show the contact information will all authors. Use ```yaml thanks: author:
  • name: Author 1 email: email 1

```

to add specific authors.

Show all changes in 0.27Hide the rest of the changes in 0.27
  • biblio-style is now supported. It is set by defauilt to tfcad.bst for T&F standard Chicago author-date style.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

Health

CRAN checks
2NOTE11OK
Check messages
NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
Author field differs from that derived from Authors@R
  Author:    ‘JJ Allaire [aut], Yihui Xie [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-5666>), Christophe Dervieux [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4474-2498>), Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd], R Foundation [aut, cph], Hadley Wickham [aut], Journal of Statistical Software [aut, cph], Ramnath Vaidyanathan [aut, cph], Association for Computing Machinery [aut, cph], Carl Boettiger [aut, cph], Elsevier [aut, cph], Karl Broman [aut, cph], Kirill Mueller [aut, cph], Bastiaan Quast [aut, cph], Randall Pruim [aut, cph], Ben Marwick [aut, cph], Charlotte Wickham [aut, cph], Oliver Keyes [aut, cph], Miao Yu [aut, cph], Daniel Emaasit [aut, cph], Thierry Onkelinx [aut, cph], Alessandro Gasparini [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8319-7624>), Marc-Andre Desautels [aut, cph], Dominik Leutnant [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3293-2315>), MDPI [aut, cph], Taylor and Francis [aut, cph], Oğuzhan Öğreden [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0
...[truncated]...
CID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6087-359X>, github: dmkaplan2000), Sebastian Kreutzer [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0734-2199>), Shixiang Wang [aut, ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9855-7357>), Jay Hesselberth [aut, ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6299-179X>), Alfredo Hernández [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2660-4545>), Stefano Coretta [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9627-5532>, github: stefanocoretta), Greg Macfarlane [ctb] (github: gregmacfarlane), Matthias Templ [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8638-5276>, github: matthias-da), Alvaro Uzaheta [ctb] (github: auzaheta), JooYoung Seo [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4064-6012>), Callum Arnold [ctb] (github: arnold-c), Rob Hyndman [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2140-5352>), Dmytro Perepolkin [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8558-6183>, github: dmi3kno), Tom Palmer [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4655-4511>, github: remlapmot)’

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
Status changes
  • NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
  • NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10
Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.27
README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.27Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages
13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
60%3 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples
42%
Documented parameters
90%
Return-value docs
33%
Help pages citing references
15%
How these are measured

Downloads

124.1K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #1,209 · ~340/day · ~10.3K/mo
Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.
7.8K30 days
26.8K90 days
124.1K1 year
Compare downloads with other packages →
Also on393 r2u1 autocran3.2K conda_forge156 c2d4u
How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/rticles ↗Organization: rstudio
1,539Stars
516Forks
48Open issues
11Open PRs
23Releases
894Commits
103Commit identities
rjournalpaperarticlermarkdownr-package
894 commits · Last activity 2026-10-01 · +0.1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.27.18, ahead of CRAN 0.27 (checked 2026-10-18)
Responsiveness
How these are sampled
PRs merged (all time)
87%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
22
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
1

Stars over time

2025-10-10 · 1,5132026-10-10 · 1,539
How these are measured
PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/rticles on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (4)
Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template
Docs source (2)
README.Rmdpkgdown
Coverage (1)
Coverage reporting (Codecov)
Show all practicesHide 3 practices
CRAN release process (2)
cran-comments.mdrevdep/
Lint, format, editor (1)
RStudio project
Git structural (1)
.gitattributes
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rticles adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (0)
none
Imports (7)
knitrlifecyclermarkdowntinytex (>= 0.30)utilsxfunyaml
LinkingTo (0)
none
Suggests (6)
bookdownwithrcovrtestittestthatxtable
Enhances (0)
none
Dependency license breakdown →
Reverse dependencies
1direct
2indirect
Imports 1
Suggested by 17
Show all 18 packagesHide all 18 packages
Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first
worcs
Suggests, most downloaded first
forecastpkgdownmarkovchainmultgeeoro.niftinlstoolswrswoRsimmerRGCCAhyper2reservrfairadaptImmutablesricuchroniclediscourseGTemburden
How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (51)
Christophe Dervieux ORCID iD
Author, Maintainer since 0.22 (2021) · added in 0.15
JJ Allaire
Author
Association for Computing Machinery
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.4
Carl Boettiger
Author, Copyright holder
Karl Broman
Author, Copyright holder
Elio Campitelli ORCID iD
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.7
Robrecht Cannoodt ORCID iD
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.13
rcannood
Marc-Andre Desautels
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.5
Elsevier
Author, Copyright holder
Daniel Emaasit
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.5
Alessandro Gasparini ORCID iD
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.5
Dalton Hance
Author · added in 0.6
Alex Hayes ORCID iD
Author · added in 0.15
Jay Hesselberth ORCID iD
Author, Contributor · added in 0.15
Rob Hyndman ORCID iD
Author · added in 0.23
Journal of Statistical Software
Author, Copyright holder
Zhian N. Kamvar ORCID iD
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.10
David M. Kaplan ORCID iD
Author, Contributor · added in 0.14
dmkaplan2000
Oliver Keyes
Author, Copyright holder
Sebastian Kreutzer ORCID iD
Author · added in 0.15
Dominik Leutnant ORCID iD
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.5
Duncan Luguern
Author · added in 0.14
MDPI
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.5
Ben Marwick
Author, Copyright holder
Kirill Mueller
Author, Copyright holder
John Muschelli ORCID iD
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.7
Daniel Nüst ORCID iD
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.6
Thierry Onkelinx
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.5
Randall Pruim
Author, Copyright holder
Bastiaan Quast
Author, Copyright holder
R Foundation
Author, Copyright holder
Noam Ross ORCID iD
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.11
Taylor and Francis
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.8
Petter Uvesten
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.7
Ramnath Vaidyanathan
Author, Copyright holder
Shixiang Wang ORCID iD
Author, Contributor · added in 0.15
Charlotte Wickham
Author, Copyright holder
Hadley Wickham
Author
Yihui Xie ORCID iD
Author
Miao Yu
Author, Copyright holder · added in 0.2
Oğuzhan Öğreden ORCID iD
Author
Callum Arnold
Contributor · added in 0.22
arnold-c
Stefano Coretta ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.19
stefanocoretta
Alfredo Hernández ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.15
Greg Macfarlane
Contributor · added in 0.22
gregmacfarlane
Tom Palmer ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.23
remlapmot
Dmytro Perepolkin ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.23
dmi3kno
JooYoung Seo ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.21
Matthias Templ ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.21
matthias-da
Show 1 more contributorHide 1 contributor
Alvaro Uzaheta
Contributor · added in 0.19
auzaheta
Posit Software, PBC
Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.25

Previously maintained by Yihui Xie (0.5 to 0.21) and JJ Allaire (0.1 to 0.4.1).

Listed in earlier versions (3)
Show 3 peopleHide 3 people
Assocation for Computing Machinery
no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.2
RStudio
no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.22
RStudio
no longer listed · 0.23 to 0.24
Releases (27)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • 0.27Latest
    record
    2024-04-07 · current release · diff ↗
  • 0.26
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    2023-12-20 · diff ↗
  • 0.25
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    2023-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    string_to_table
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • 0.24
    record
    2022-08-26 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    lncs_article
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • 0.23
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    2022-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
    added 3 exports
    informs_article, iop_article, isba_article
  • 0.22
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    2021-12-14 · diff ↗ ·
    added 2 exports
    trb_article, wellcomeor_article
  • 0.21
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    2021-09-11 · diff ↗ ·
    added 3 exports
    ajs_article, glossa_article, jedm_article
  • 0.20
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    2021-06-23 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • 0.19
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    2021-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
    added 3 exports
    ims_article, jasa_article, pihph_article
  • 0.18
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    2021-01-06 · diff ↗
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  • 0.17
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    2020-11-01 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    lipics_article
  • 0.16
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    2020-09-22 · diff ↗
  • 0.15
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    2020-08-26 · diff ↗ ·
    added 4 exports
    arxiv_article, bioinformatics_article, ctex_article, journals
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
  • 0.14
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    2020-02-05 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    oup_article
  • 0.13
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    2019-12-19 · diff ↗
  • 0.12
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    2019-11-12 · diff ↗
  • 0.11
    record
    2019-10-01 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    joss_article
  • 0.10
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    2019-08-21 · diff ↗
  • 0.9
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    2019-07-12 · diff ↗
  • 0.8
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    2019-05-14 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    tf_article
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
  • 0.7
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    2019-03-16 · diff ↗ ·
    removed 1 export
    ctex_template
    added 2 exports
    agu_article, frontiers_article
  • 0.6
    record
    2018-10-09 · diff ↗ ·
    added 4 exports
    biometrics_article, copernicus_article, copernicus_journal_abbreviations, sage_article
  • 0.5
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    2018-07-06 · diff ↗ ·
    added 7 exports
    amq_article, ieee_article, mdpi_article, mnras_article, peerj_article, rsos_article, springer_article
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
  • 0.4.1
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    2017-05-16 · diff ↗
  • 0.4
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    2017-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
    added 7 exports
    aea_article, ams_article, asa_article, plos_article, pnas_article, rss_article, sim_article
  • R
    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
  • R
    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
  • 0.2
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    2016-04-24 · diff ↗ ·
    added 1 export
    acs_article
  • 0.1
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    2016-01-05
  • R
    R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published
2016-01-05
Total releases
27 / 10 yrs
License
GPL-3 OSI
Download size
5.0 MB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rticles")
Dervieux, C., Posit Software, PBC, Allaire, J., Arnold, C., Association for Computing Machinery, , Boettiger, C., Broman, K., Campitelli, E., Cannoodt, R., Coretta, S., Desautels, M., Elsevier, , Emaasit, D., Gasparini, A., Hance, D., Hayes, A., Hernández, A., Hesselberth, J., Hyndman, R., Journal of Statistical Software, , Kamvar, Z. N., Kaplan, D. M., Keyes, O., Kreutzer, S., Leutnant, D., Luguern, D., MDPI, , Macfarlane, G., Marwick, B., Mueller, K., Muschelli, J., Nüst, D., Onkelinx, T., Palmer, T., Perepolkin, D., Pruim, R., Quast, B., R Foundation, , Ross, N., Seo, J., Taylor and Francis, , Templ, M., Uvesten, P., Uzaheta, A., Vaidyanathan, R., Wang, S., Wickham, C., Wickham, H., Xie, Y., Yu, M., & Öğreden, O. (2024). rticles: Article Formats for R Markdown (Version 0.27) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rticles

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rticles version 0.27 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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