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+Package: posterdown
+Title: Generates PDF/ Latex posters using R Markdown and Beamer.
+Version: 0.1.0
+Authors@R: c(person(c("Thorne","B."), email = "brent.thorne18@gmail.com", role = c("aut","cre"))
+Description: Posterdown expands on RMarkdown to generate PDF conference posters.
+Currently it on outputs via Knitr Pandoc and Latex to a PDF output.
+License: MIT + file LICENSE
+Encoding: UTF-8
+LazyData: true
+Imports: yaml
+Depends:
+    R (>= 3.3.0),
+    devtools,
+    dplyr,
+    ggplot2,
+    rmarkdown,
+    knitr
+RoxygenNotes: 6.0.1