Oxdown

This project is a modified version Chester Ismay's thesisdown package to provide support for Oxford University's thesis.

Currently, the PDF version is fully functional. All other versions are derived from thesisdown and are not guaranteed to work.

Installation

To install and use oxdown and use it for your dissertation/thesis, you will need:

pandoc
LaTeX
R >= 3.3.0
RStudio (optional, but it helps)

Open Rstudio and type:

if (!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.org")
devtools::install_github("davidplans/oxdown")

To use it, open Rstudio, click on File > New File > Rmarkdown ... and then select the Thesis option from the Templates.

Make sure to give your thesis a title and save it to the correct path. Rstudio will send you to that directory and then you should open _bookdown.yml and edit the first Rmd file to be the name of your project:

book_filename: "thesis"
chapter_name: "Chapter "
-rmd_files: ["index.Rmd",
+rmd_files: ["myThesis.Rmd",
  "chapters/01-chap1.Rmd",
  "chapters/02-chap2.Rmd",
  "chapters/03-chap3.Rmd",
  "chapters/04-conclusion.Rmd",
  "chapters/99-references.Rmd"
  ]