This package is meant to serve as a example for how to include Quarto templates with extensions in a fashion that reproduces the functionality of R Markdown templates included with R packages. The example included here could serve as a branded PDF report template.
Specifically, the following functionality:
- All template resources are included with the extension
- Create a new Quarto document based on a template in a single function
- A template skeleton is used as a template when creating a new Quarto document
- Resources such as latex templates/headers are copied over
- A sub-directory is created for the new report
Install this package with the following code:
remotes::install_github("Pecners/quartotemplate")
The use_quarto_ext() function will implement the functionality listed above. For example, executing use_quarto_ext(file_name = "test") will create a new director called test with a header.tex file and test.qmd file for the the new report. test.qmd is based on skeleton.qmd found here: inst > extdata > _extensions > quartotemplate > skeleton.qmd
Thomas Mock provided tips on Twitter that gave me the idea for this solution, and the use_quarto_ext() is an extension of a function he wrote in this repo: https://github.com/jthomasmock/octavo.