This project is a modified version Chester Ismay's thesisdown package to provide support for University of Florida's thesis.

Currently, the PDF version is fully functional. All other versions are derived from thesisdown and are not guaranteed to work.

To install and use gatordown and use it for your dissertation/thesis, you will need:

• pandoc
• LaTeX
• R >= 3.3.0
• RStudio (optional, but it helps)

Open Rstudio and type:

if (!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools", repos = "http://cran.rstudio.org")
devtools::install_github("AnthonyRaborn/gatordown")

To use it, open Rstudio, click on **File > New File > Rmarkdown > From Template ** and then select the UF-Dissertation template.

Make sure to give your thesis a title and save it to the correct path. Rstudio will send you to that directory and then you should open _bookdown.yml and edit the first Rmd file to be the name of your project:

book_filename: "thesis"
chapter_name: "Chapter "
-rmd_files: ["index.Rmd",
+rmd_files: ["myThesis.Rmd", #edit the name of this file
  "chapters/01-chap1.Rmd",
  "chapters/02-chap2.Rmd",
  "chapters/03-chap3.Rmd",
  "chapters/04-chap4.Rmd",
  "chapters/05-chap5.Rmd",
  "chapters/06-appendix.Rmd",
  "chapters/99-references.Rmd"
  ]

Instructions for editing are in the README file.