Miles McBain learned the Docco style in knitr by chance when he meant to
ask about
getParseData().
This HTML style is lesser known but one of my personal favorite styles. I have
used it in a few package vignettes such as the highr
vignette.
The style is based on Docco, and the code
was mainly contributed by Weicheng Zhu in
2013. To render an R Markdown document
to this style, you may call:
knitr::rocco('test.Rmd')
Note that the R Markdown document should be an old-fashioned one, i.e., to be rendered via the markdown package instead of Pandoc, which means the Knit button in RStudio will not work.
Features of this Docco style include (see a demo):
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The two-column layout, with prose on the left and code on the right.
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The widths of the two columns can be adjusted by dragging the vertical middle border to the left or right.
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You may press the key
tto toggle the visibility of the two columns, so you may read prose only, code only, or both.
If you want to build a package vignette with this style, you can add the
following vignette metadata to your Rmd file to specify the vignette engine to
be knitr::docco_classic:
<!--
%\VignetteEngine{knitr::docco_classic}
%\VignetteIndexEntry{Your vignette title}
-->
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