Command line tools: R (version 4.4.2), pandoc

1. Install packages within R

   R> install.packages("rmarkdown") # Rmarkdown support
   R> install.packages("readr") # read CSV data
   R> install.packages("posterdown") # generate poster

2. Prepare the data
   • Data for tables should be provided in .csv file
   • Bibliography data should be provided in .bib file
   • Images
3. Write poster contents in an R Markdown file
   • The YAML section:
     • title and author

       author:
         - name: SZ
           affil: 1, 2
       affiliation:
         - num: 1
           address: Department of XXX
         - num: 2
           address: Department of YYY

     • poster sizes

       poster_width: "24in"
       poster_height: "18in"

     • logo

       logoleft_name: "./logo.png"
       logoright_name: "./logo.png"

     • bibliography:

       bibliography: "reference.bib"

     • poster style:

       output: posterdown::posterdown_html

   • The markdown section: write using standard markdown syntax
     • hide codes in the poster

       ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
       knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
       ```
       

     • table generation

       ```{r Table1, out.width='100%', warning = FALSE, message = FALSE}
       library("readr")
       models = read_csv("./models.csv")
       knitr::kable(models, align = 'c',"html")
       ```
       

     • font size for the references

       <font size="3.5"> <div id="refs"></div> </font>

4. Compile the file within R
   • create the poster in HTML format

     R> rmarkdown::render("poster.Rmd")

   • create the poster in PDF format (Requires Chrome browser)

     R> pagedown::chrome_print("poster.Rmd")

• More advanced settings: modify the template HTML file
  • MacOS: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/posterdown/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_html/resources/template.html
  • Linux (Fedora): ~/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/4.4/posterdown/rmarkdown/templates/posterdown_html/resources/template.html

Example file for poster.Rmd:

Result after compilation:

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