README.md

May 29, 2014 ยท View on GitHub

#markdownPoster

This is my first (admitedly hacky) attempt at creating a poster with R Markdown. I wanted to do this, becuase I am not very good with LaTeX.

I accomplished it by wrapping sections of the R Markdown document in a

and then taking care of the styling and layout with CSS. The general workflow is:

  1. Author in R Markdwon
  2. Convert to Markdown with knitr
  3. Convert to html and include css with pandoc
  4. Convert html to pdf with wkhtmltopdf

I used wkhtmltopdf and not pandoc to convert to pdf as I could not get the css styling to render in the pandoc output pdf.

The makefile implements this workflow.

Oh, and the styling, colors, etc are just placeholders at the moment. I am bad on design, but not that bad!