virvar-project / uib-dissertation-template

Unofficial UiB template for writing your PhD thesis/dissertation in Rmarkdown

Write your UiB PhD thesis in Rmarkdown

This is an RMarkdown dissertation/thesis template for PhD students at University of Bergen and was created by Marius Saltvedt (PhD student). The template is a combination of RMarkdown and the official UiB LaTeX template (https://avhandling.uib.no/) to achieve proper formatting (no LaTeX skills required).

You can download the template by clicking here

All the *.Rmd files correspond to the different sections of the dissertation. PS: Even though the title page is written in LaTeX (and might look frighting), you only need to replace the text that is already there (e.g. "Main Title", "Subtitle", "First-name Last-name"...).

You may render the template at any time by knitting the file main.Rmd to generate a PDF version of the dissertation. In this file you can also add/remove/rename sections to fit your thesis outline.

The YAML section in the main.Rmd provides proper format of the dissertation, so it can be shrunken to a smaller book-format (17 x 24 cm) before print (which means that you don't have to worry about this). Additionally, this section loads in the bibliography file containing the references written in BibTex format, and it loads in the preamble.tex file that loads in necessary LaTeX commands and packages.

Check out the file called chX_examples.Rmd to see some nice examples and useful commands.

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal.