Converting LaTeX Legacy R Journal Articles into R Markdown Articles using texor and rebib
In 2021 the R Journal made a change of templates for article writing to R Markdown instead of LaTeX. The reasons were to encourage better reproducibility of articles using dynamic documents, enable interactivity in articles, and to make the articles more accessible for print-disabled readers. A resulting challenge was to explore whether legacy articles might be suitably converted into HTML output. This paper describes the process of converting an R Journal article from LaTeX to HTML format via R Markdown, and the two new R packages, texor and rebib, that can be used to achieve the conversion.
Authors
- Mitchell O’Hara-Wild (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6729-7695)
- Dianne Cook (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3813-7155)
- Heather Turner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1256-3375)
- Abhishek Ulayil
- Christophe Dervieux
Institutions
- Society of Actuaries (US)
- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (AU)
- Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (GB)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- Posit Science (United States) (US)
- Posit Software, PBC (United States)
- Monash University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The R Journal
- Published
- 2025-10-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.32614/rj-2025-022
- Primary Topic
- Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council