litedown: A Lightweight Version of R Markdown
Render R Markdown to Markdown (without using 'knitr'), and Markdown
to lightweight HTML or 'LaTeX' documents via the bundled 'cmark-gfm' library
(instead of 'Pandoc'). Some missing Markdown features in 'cmark-gfm' are also
supported, such as raw HTML or 'LaTeX' blocks, 'LaTeX' math, superscripts,
subscripts, footnotes, element attributes, and appendices,
but not all 'Pandoc' Markdown features are (or will be) supported. With
additional JavaScript and CSS, you can also create HTML slides and articles.
This package can be viewed as a trimmed-down version of R Markdown and
'knitr'. It does not aim at rich Markdown features or a large variety of
output formats (the primary formats are HTML and 'LaTeX'). Book and website
projects of multiple input documents are also supported.
| Version: |
1.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.2.0) |
| Imports: |
utils, xfun (≥ 0.62) |
| Suggests: |
rbibutils, rstudioapi, testit, tinyimg, tinytex |
| Published: |
2026-11-02 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.litedown |
| Author: |
Yihui Xie  [aut,
cre] (URL: https://yihui.org),
Tim Taylor [ctb],
John MacFarlane [cph] (Author of cmark),
Jeroen Ooms [ctb, cph] (Author of the R bindings to cmark in the
commonmark package, from which the C glue code was adapted),
GitHub, Inc. [cph] (Author of the cmark-gfm extensions) |
| Maintainer: |
Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/yihui/litedown/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/yihui/litedown |
| NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| In views: |
PackageDevelopment |
| CRAN checks: |
litedown results |
Documentation:
Downloads:
Reverse dependencies:
| Reverse imports: |
liteformats, markdown |
| Reverse suggests: |
ageutils, armadillo4r, atime, bigANNOY, bsplus, CbKST, cpp4r, cusna, easybio, fastymd, flashr, flexsynth, grates, heplots, incidence2, knitr, kstIO, lt, mirai, mlr3resampling, nanonext, paws.common, piar, polyCub, rapr, Rd2roxygen, rgeedim, rgeomorphon, ronfig, rsmatrix, RWsearch, sommer, sps, super, tinytable, wbstats, xfun, ympes |
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