# rstudio/rticles

LaTeX Journal Article Templates for R Markdown

Repository: https://github.com/rstudio/rticles
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rticles
Homepage: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/rticles/
Language: TeX
License Family: other
Topics: r, journal, paper, article, rmarkdown, r-package
Last push: 2026-05-15T17:24:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4555, "days_push": 110, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1538, forks 518 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:00.297829+00:00)

## What it is
An R package providing a suite of custom R Markdown LaTeX formats and templates for many academic journals such as ACM, ACS, Elsevier, Springer, and JSS. It lets researchers write reproducible articles in R Markdown and knit them to journal-compliant PDFs.

## Use cases
- write a journal article in R Markdown and export to a journal's LaTeX format
- format a paper for ACM or Elsevier submission
- create reproducible scientific manuscripts with embedded R code
- generate an arXiv preprint PDF from R Markdown
- produce a Journal of Statistical Software article
- submit a Taylor & Francis paper with correct reference styles

## When to choose
- you write academic papers with R Markdown and need journal-specific LaTeX output
- you want reproducible manuscripts combining code, figures, and text
- you use RStudio and want ready-made journal templates

## When to avoid
- you write papers in plain LaTeX or Word without R
- you need a journal template not covered by the package
- you don't use R Markdown or Pandoc in your workflow

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: templating, documentation, pdf
- domain: documentation, data-science, education
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: rmarkdown, latex, academic-writing, journal-templates, r-package, scientific-publishing, r

## Member repositories
- rstudio/rticles (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:00.297829+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:30:58.238249+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rstudio/rticles (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:00.297829+00:00, sha 16ba748d55db)
  - homepage: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/rticles/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:32:37.840623+00:00, sha 8286e9d67c46)
  - site_page: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/rticles/news/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:32:37.843784+00:00, sha 5699b2f52184)
  - site_page: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:32:37.846860+00:00, sha b56145f84fe9)
  - site_page: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/rticles/authors.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:32:37.848798+00:00, sha 4285cf371d80)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.