Please download the paper here: https://osf.io/k8jhx

This repository contains files and a template to write a reproducible paper in pagedown. paper.pdf contains the pdf-formatted version of our template which provides an introduction to the fairly new pagedown R-package as well as "tricks" and code to produce important elements of scientific papers (e.g., tables, figures, inlince code, etc.).

The file underlying this template is paper.Rmd which contains all the code and input to produce a good-looking working-paper "style" doucment (in html and in pdf).

All the files you will need to "replicate" paper.pdf are:

1. the input files:

• paper.rmd (the underlying R Markdown file).
• references.bib (the bibliography).
• data.csv (some raw data).
• american-sociological-association.csl (defines the style of your bibliography).
  • You can download various citation styles here

2. the "styling" files:

Basically, these are files you will need to specify in the YAML of your paper.rmd, so that R and ultimately pagedown recognizes the certain style you want to achieve for your document. With using our templates, you will create a document that has the "look" of a working paper (we based our files on the jss_paged pagedown format).

• wp_paged.html (based on jss_paged.html)
• wp.css
• wp-fonts.css
• wp-pages.css

Take paper.rmd and have a look at the YAML (line #18 - #22) to see how to specifiy these files. Basically, what happens here is that within the jss_paged function we additionally specify that we want to use custom CSS and custom HTML.

Once you run/compile the paper.rmd file in Rstudio it creates a output file called paper_pagedown.html.

By using pagedown's chrome_print function in the YAML (line #25) your html based web page will be printed to paper_pagedown.pdf (the one you are reading right now).

Both outputs will be saved in your working directory.

We intend to update this file when we discover more convenient code (you can follow any updates within this repository). 🕵️‍♀️