jreniel/Pyrticles

Example of how to implement rticles with python

Creating a document with the rticles package in RStudio

Steps

1. Install the needed packages and accept all dependencies

pkgs <- c("reticulate", "rticles", "tinytex")
install.packages(pkgs)
tinytex::install_tinytex()

2. Navigate to RStudio>Tools>Global Options>Python - set your python interpreter and/or conda env. You will have to restart your R session to enable the changes.
3. Create a new R project
   • File>New Project
   • Choose New Directory or Existing Directory if you already have a folder in mind. The Existing Directory option will name the project the same name as the parent directory.
4. Create a new Rmarkdown document
   • File>New R Markdown
   • Choose "From Template", then select the rticles format you want to use
   • Most of these contain multiple files that will need to be deposited into a subdirectory with your preferred title.
5. Modify the YAML header and any text.
6. Click the knit button in the editor to convert the document to a formatted PDF.

Python specifics

• To enable calling on python objects, you have to enable to the reticulate package

library(reticulate)

• To add python script, click wherever you want to add code, then press CTRL+ALT+i to insert a code chunk
• Within the brackets, change it from "{r}" to "{python}"
• Enter your python code. You can have results display directly from the chunk (e.g. print(d))
• For inline code, you still have to call on the R environment. So if you have an object d, to call it inline, you would have to type `r py$d` where `py$d` is the object. That also means that you can apply any r functions to that object. For example, round the output to two digits `r round(py$d, digits = 2)`.

Example

The example for this can be found in the Test directory.