betterposter

Another Better Scientific Poster Using R Markdown and pagedown

⚠️ This is a work in progress and is not fully documented yet ⚠️

A better scientific poster, inspired by Mike Morrison's Better Poster Template.

Installation

You can install the in-development version of betterposter from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("gerkelab/betterposter")

Usage

Use betterposter::poster_better() to get an awesome poster generated from R Markdown!

Features

Like many others, we saw Mike's How to create a better research poster in less time video on Twitter and loved it. Like others, we thought: "let's bring that to R Markdown!". This is our version, but you may want to check out posterdown by Brent Thorne, where another version of the Better Scientific Poster can be found (including a portrait version).

The main features of this implementation are

1. The QR Code is fully customizable and generated in the browser (no external API calls!). Use qrcode_options() to set the qrcode argument in poster_better().

2. Great default typography built using Roboto and Robot slab for highly readable text and headers, with Source Sans Pro for the main hero text and Source Code Pro for source code (naturally).

3. Customizable colors via hero_background, hero_color and accent_color.

4. All variables for customizing the poster are listed and (will be) documented in better_poster().