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rmarkdownright-to-left

Change text direction to become right-to-left in R Markdown

I have a fully functioning RMD template which generates nice reports in English.

(The RMD stands for R Markdown file. Basically its an interactive template r file, which can receive input from another r file many times. as any given input is passed, the template calculates some functions on the input and saves an HTML report corresponding to the outputs you specify.)

In addition, I need to make another version which look beautiful in Hebrew instead. simply replacing the text works fine. However, The main a issue with it is that the text is aligned Left-to-right (compatible with English) while I need to turn it to Right-to-left.

I am sure there is some simple way to do it, but I haven't found it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Solution

  • You can add css options to your Rmd template file. For example:

    ---
title: חוכמה
output: html_document
---
<style>
h1 {
  direction: rtl;
}
p {
  direction: rtl;
}
</style>

הספר הוא ידידו הטוב של האדם

    Render this document with rmarkdown::render("Template.Rmd") for a result like this:

    enter image description here

    Option direction: rtl; specifies text direction right to left.

    p in :

    p {
  direction: rtl;
}

    Specifies direction for text in "paragraphs".
    h1 in:

    h1 {
  direction: rtl;
}

    Specifies direction for level 1 header (it's your title and header that starts with 1 #). For direction to work with all headers (eg, #, ##, ###) you should use:

    h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
  direction: rtl;
}