boilerplate: Managing and Compiling Manuscript Templates

Managing and generating standardised text for methods and results sections of scientific reports. It handles template variable substitution and supports hierarchical organisation of text through dot-separated paths. The package supports both RDS and JSON database formats, enabling version control and cross-language compatibility.

Version: 1.3.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: cli, digest, jsonlite, jsonvalidate, tools, utils
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-06-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.boilerplate
Author: Joseph Bulbulia ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Joseph Bulbulia <joseph.bulbulia at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/go-bayes/boilerplate/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://go-bayes.github.io/boilerplate/, https://github.com/go-bayes/boilerplate
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: boilerplate citation info
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: boilerplate results

Documentation:

Reference manual: boilerplate.pdf
Vignettes: boilerplate Package Architecture (source, R code)
Bibliography Management with boilerplate (source, R code)
Getting Started with boilerplate: A Complete Workflow (source, R code)
Internal Functions Guide for Developers (source, R code)
Introduction to boilerplate: Practical Examples (source, R code)
Introduction to boilerplate (source, R code)
JSON Schema Documentation (source, R code)
Working with JSON Databases in boilerplate (source, R code)
Working with Measures in boilerplate (source, R code)
Managing Multiple Projects with boilerplate (source, R code)
Using boilerplate with Quarto for Scientific Writing (source, R code)
Version Management and Backup Recovery (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: boilerplate_1.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: boilerplate_1.3.0.zip, r-oldrel: boilerplate_1.3.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): boilerplate_1.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): boilerplate_1.3.0.tgz

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