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author | brentthorne <15312739+brentthorne@users.noreply.github.com> | Sun Jan 06 00:45:13 2019 -0500 |
committer | brentthorne <15312739+brentthorne@users.noreply.github.com> | Sun Jan 06 00:45:13 2019 -0500 |
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Update to the Description
You can install and use posterdown from github using the devtools
package as seen below.
devtools::install_github("brentthorne/posterdown")
The posterdown package provides a familiar workflow enviroment for those used to working in RMarkdown. See the skeleton.Rmd
that is produced when generating a new posterdown document for how to go from typical RMarkdown formatting to this: posterdown PDF Poster
This package is currently focused on a single template called posterdown_memoir which is a 38in (H) by 45in (W) poster template which allows for custom section headers and content.
To use posterdown from RStudio:
Install the latest RStudio.
Install the posterdown package:
devtools::install_github("brentthorne/posterdown")
Use the New R Markdown dialog to create a conference poster from the templates
Install pandoc using the instructions for your platform.
Install the rmarkdown and posterdown packages:
devtools::install_github("brentthorne/posterdown")
Use the rmarkdown::draft()
function to create articles:
rmarkdown::draft("MyJSSArticle.Rmd", template = "posterdown_memoir", package = "posterdown")