Issue 2025-W11 Highlights

Giving your package documentation site a little personality and much more with {pkgdown} customization, plus a novel new package to bring the power of LaTeX to all of your plots!Episode Links

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)
• Customize your expedition: Create a unique documentation for your R Package
• LaTeX Typesetting in R: The 'xdvir' Package
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W11

Supplement Resources

• {xdvir} package vignette https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xdvir/vignettes/xdvir-intro.html
• tinytex- A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live https://yihui.org/tinytex/
• Adding arm64 to r2u https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03/04#046_arm64_comes_to_r2u
• Website for tidyplots use cases https://tidyplots.org/use-cases/

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