Custom CSS with knitr and markdown in R

Question

I found this great tutorial on how to modify the css formatting of a HTML report created with markdown and knitr in Rstudio. The post can be found here.

I was hoping to build on this concept and mimic the layout of the page here by using the same css. I tried to simply copy/paste/combine the two css files I found when I viewed the page's source.

Any help you can lend would be greatly appreciated! This is my first attempt and doing anything CSS.

Answer 1

This is the method provided by RStudio: http://www.rstudio.com/ide/docs/authoring/markdown_custom_rendering

options(rstudio.markdownToHTML = 
  function(inputFile, outputFile) {      
    require(markdown)
    markdownToHTML(inputFile, outputFile, stylesheet='custom.css')   
  }
) 

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I've never been able to get that working properly so I do it a little differently:

I do this by creating the standard output file, then dropping the header and css code at the top in R:

tmp <- readLines("your.html") 
tmp <- tmp[-c(1:50)] # or however many lines it is before the css ends
write(tmp,"your.html")

Then I use pandoc to add my own css in a standalone file

system("pandoc -s -S your.html -c your.css -o output.html")