binb 0.0.8 on CRAN: Maintenance

Fri, 01 May 2026 08:34:00 CDT

The eight release of the binb package, and first in two years, is now on CRAN and in r2u. binb regroups four rather nice themes for writing LaTeX Beamer presentations much more easily in (R)Markdown. As a teaser, a quick demo combining all four themes is available; documentation and examples are in the package.

This release contains regular internal updates to continuous integration, URLs reference and switch to Authors@R. The trigger for the release, though, was a small updated need when very recent pandoc versions (as shipped with RStudio) are used which require a new variable declaration in the LaTeX template files in order to process uncaptioned tables. The summary of changes follows.

Changes in binb version 0.0.8 (2026-05-01)

Small updates to documentation URLs and continuous integration

The package now uses Authors@R in DESCRIPTION

Newer pandoc versions are accommodated by adding a required counter variable in the latex template file

CRANberries provides a summary of changes to the previous version. For questions or comments, please use the issue tracker at the GitHub repo.

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