boilerplate: Managing and Compiling Manuscript Templates

Managing and generating standardised text for methods and results sections of scientific reports. It handles template variable substitution and supports hierarchical organisation of text through dot-separated paths. Databases are stored as JSON by default for version control and cross-language compatibility; trusted legacy RDS databases remain readable through import and migration utilities.

Version:	1.4.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1)
Imports:	cli, digest, jsonlite, jsonvalidate, tools, utils
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-07-12
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.boilerplate
Author:	Joseph Bulbulia [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Joseph Bulbulia <joseph.bulbulia at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/go-bayes/boilerplate/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://go-bayes.github.io/boilerplate/, https://github.com/go-bayes/boilerplate
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	boilerplate citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	boilerplate results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

boilerplate.html , boilerplate.pdf

Vignettes:

boilerplate Package Architecture (source, R code) Bibliography Management with boilerplate (source, R code) Getting Started with boilerplate: A Complete Workflow (source, R code) Internal Functions Guide for Developers (source, R code) Introduction to boilerplate: Practical Examples (source, R code) Introduction to boilerplate (source, R code) JSON Schema Documentation (source, R code) Working with JSON Databases in boilerplate (source, R code) Working with Measures in boilerplate (source, R code) Managing Multiple Projects with boilerplate (source, R code) Using boilerplate with Quarto for Scientific Writing (source, R code) Version Management and Backup Recovery (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	boilerplate_1.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: boilerplate_1.3.0.zip, r-release: boilerplate_1.3.0.zip, r-oldrel: boilerplate_1.3.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): boilerplate_1.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): boilerplate_1.4.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): boilerplate_1.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): boilerplate_1.4.0.tgz
Old sources:	boilerplate archive

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