Reproducible Poster within R Markdown and R-Stuido
Using Brent Thornes Base Posters and converting to Otago University fonts, logos and formats
https://github.com/brentthorne/posterdown
pdf version https://github.com/Shedimus/EACR_posterdown
ggplot colours https://github.com/thoughtfulbloke/theme_otago
To install the package and template for the posters use
devtools::install_github("brentthorne/posterdown")
Full instructions are at Brent's github repo including all the options for changing font size and other settings.
Use the File / New File / R Markdown.. / From Template / Posterdown HTML or Posterdown BetterLand or Posterdown BetterPort dialog pathway to create the template poster.
in the console rmarkdown::draft(file = "mydraft.Rmd", template = "posterdown_betterland", package = "posterdown", create_dir=FALSE)
As of February 2020 settings need to be changed in the header of the .Rmd Document that is created. The goal will be to create a full Otago University Template to install and run with the appropriate colours and logos embeded.
Fonts: https://www.otago.ac.nz/webservices/guides/designers/styles/otago049670.html
font-family: 'Open sans', Helvetica, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif;
University logo: http://www.otago.ac.nz/ou-logo.png
Colours: https://www.otago.ac.nz/webservices/guides/designers/styles/otago049840.html
Otago Blue: #00508F
Links: #416EBF
Light blue: #F1F4F8
Body text: #333333
Grey: #DDDDDD
Light grey: #F5F5F5
Otago Yellow: #F9C000