Use bookdownplus write papers and manage lab logs

Since being a Rmarkdown user, I’m thinking how to write papers, manage teaching materials and record lab works in this format. When I met papaja three years ago, it is my dream someday I will use R process all my works. papaja is amazing but it is implemented to English only.

Later I found bookdown developed by Yihui Xie. bookdown has the potential to manage Chinese writings. However, this package is primarily developed for writing and publishing books.

Fortunately, Peng Zhao has worked on the advanced work: bookdownplus. This package provides many templates for academic works and hobbies, including:

• Academic article
• Book
• Thesis
• Poster
• Journals
• Poem book
• Guitar chords

I believe the ‘journal’ template will be particularly useful for research teams practicing open science, allowing collaborative daily logging that can be made public after paper publication.

For traditional Chinese users, I recommend installing specific font files after installation: KaiTi.ttf, simfang.ttf, simhei.ttf, and simkai.ttf.

I hope future versions of bookdownplus will enhance support for multi-byte language systems and allow users to share custom templates.