A Better Reproducible Poster Title


W. Brent Thorne 1,*


Another G. Contributor2 Person Three3

1 Department of Earth Science, Brock University
2 Department of Graphics and Layouts, University of Posters; Canada
3 Another Institute of a place where work gets done, Earth, Milky Way

Introduction

This is the posterdown_betterland template for the {posterdown} package! I was inspired by the twitter thread of Mike Morrison and wanted to apply the #betterposter concept to the reproducible (yet simple to use) functionality of the {posterdown} package (Thorne 2019). If you are not an R user don’t sweat as you do NOT need to use it at all! Feel free to use only the Markdown functionallity of this package :)

Methods

  1. Install R and posterdown, see github
  2. Open the posterdown_betterland template
  3. Make all your poster dreams come true!

Results

Using {ggplot} and {patchwork} to generate a layout of multiple plots in one figure [@patchwork2017].

Figure 1: Using {ggplot} and {patchwork} to generate a layout of multiple plots in one figure (Pedersen 2017).

More Figures and Tables

Table 1: Here is a caption for the table made with the {kableExtra} package (Zhu 2019).
Sepal W Sepal L Pedal W Pedal L Species
5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa
4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa
4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa
4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa
5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa
library(ggplot2)
library(ggspatial)

load_longlake_data()

map <- ggplot() + 
  theme_pander() +
  layer_spatial(longlake_depthdf,
                aes(colour = DEPTH)) +
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")
Map of Long Lake eample from the [ggspatial](https://github.com/paleolimbot/ggspatial) package [@ggspatial].

Figure 2: Map of Long Lake eample from the ggspatial package (Dunnington, n.d.).

A BIG thank you to Romain Leasur and Yihui Xie for their wonderfull work on {pagedown} which had made this poster possible (Xie and Lesur, n.d.)!

References

Dunnington, Dewey. n.d. Ggspatial: Spatial Data Framework for Ggplot2. https://github.com/paleolimbot/ggspatial.

Pedersen, Thomas Lin. 2017. Patchwork: The Composer of Ggplots. https://github.com/thomasp85/patchwork.

Thorne, W. Brent. 2019. Posterdown: An R Package Built to Generate Reproducible Conference Posters for the Academic and Professional World Were Powerpoint and Pages Just Wont Cut It. Vol. 0.1.2. https://github.com/brentthorne/posterdown.

Xie, Yihui, and Romain Lesur. n.d. Pagedown: Paginate the Html Output of R Markdown with Css for Print. https://github.com/rstudio/pagedown.

Zhu, Hao. 2019. KableExtra: Construct Complex Table with ’Kable’ and Pipe Syntax. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=kableExtra.

Make better posters with
RMarkdown + posterdown.

Transition from poster to manuscript with ease!