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\title{Customizing Syntax Highlighting Themes}
\author{Yihui Xie \& Ramnath Vaidyanathan}

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\begin{document}
<<setup, include=FALSE, cache=FALSE>>=
library(knitr)
opts_chunk$set(fig.path='figure/theme-', cache.path='cache/theme-', cache=TRUE)
options(formatR.arrow=TRUE,width=78)
knit_hooks$set(par=function(before, options, envir){if (before) par(mar=c(4,4,.1,.1),cex.lab=.95,cex.axis=.9,mgp=c(2,.7,0),tcl=-.3)})
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<<solarized-theme, cache=FALSE, echo=FALSE>>=
thm = knit_theme$get("solarized-dark")
knit_theme$set(thm)
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\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
This manual\footnote{source code at \url{https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/master/inst/examples/knitr-themes.Rnw}}
shows how to customize syntax highlighting of source code using themes.
It walks the user through the basics of syntax highlighting in \textbf{knitr},
and the use of built-in themes.
\end{abstract}
The \textbf{knitr} package uses the \textbf{highr} package to highlight
source code in a document. In short, the \textbf{highr} package parses
the source code, tokenizes it into grammar symbols, and formats their
appearance using CSS or \LaTeX{} commands.

\section{Usage}

We can use the object \texttt{knit\_theme} to set / get a theme. See
\texttt{?knit\_theme} for the usage. For example, we set the theme
of this document to be \texttt{solarized-dark}:

<<solarized-theme>>=
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\section{Built-in Themes}

\begin{margintable}
<<eclipse-css, comment=NA, echo=FALSE>>=
cat(c(readLines('../themes/edit-eclipse.css', n=30),'...'),sep='\n')
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\end{margintable}

The listing on the right shows the CSS file for one of the themes,
\texttt{edit-eclipse}, which was adapted from Andre Simon's excellent
highlighter\footnote{\url{http://www.andre-simon.de/}}. The \textbf{knitr}
package comes pre-loaded with a number of themes based on this highlighter.
Here is list of all available code themes\footnote{For a preview of all themes, see \url{https://gist.github.com/yihui/3422133}}:

<<all-themes>>=
knit_theme$get()
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Shown below is how the \texttt{solarized-dark} theme looks like when
applied to R code:

<<demo-code, eval = FALSE>>=
library(XML)
library(plyr)
library(reshape)
# SCRAPE THE DATA FROM WEB

base_url = "http://www.mlsoccer.com/stats/%s/reg"
years    = 1996:2010
options(width = 40)

#' Function to save data for each year
save_data = function(y){
  url  = sprintf(base_url, y)
  tab  = readHTMLTable(url, header = FALSE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE);
  pos  = max(grep("United", tab));
  tab  = tab[[pos]];
  tab$year   = y;
  return(tab)            
}
	
team.list  = llply(years, save_data);
mls        = merge_recurse(team.list);
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\section{Misc}

One thing to consider is the foreground color of plots when we use
dark themes; we need to make it lighter, otherwise the graphical elements
will be difficult to be read. We can access the foreground color of
the theme in the list returned by \texttt{knit\_theme\$get(theme)},
e.g., for this document:

<<fg-color>>=
## the object thm is from the first chunk
thm$foreground  # foreground color
thm$background  # background color
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When we make plots, we may use these colors, e.g.

<<plot-color, fig.width=6, fig.height=4, out.width='.8\\linewidth', par=TRUE>>=
## can design a chunk hook to set foreground color automatically
fgcolor=thm$foreground
par(fg=fgcolor, col.axis=fgcolor, col.lab=fgcolor)
plot(rnorm(100),pch=19)
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Of course, we do not need to worry about these colors when we use
a white background for the plots.
\end{document}