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OOH Session #125…
Conference Posters (II)

Open Office Hours
(April 27, 2026)

• Recap session #124
• Today’s topic(s):
  • Conference Posters (II)
• Shared problem-solving

Reminder – check it out!!

Fantastic resource!!

New Quarto Version!!

• 1.9.37 – released 4/9/26
• LLM accomodation for websites
• new table specification (alternative to )

• more/improved typst support/integration

Note

Kulas only realized because this week’s poster template had a Quarto version requirement of > 1.9

Recap of Session
#124:

Conference Posters ()

posterdown & pagedown both capitalize on transformation via pagedown::chrome_print()

1. specify desired dimensions
2. add extra YAML spex

---
title: Generate Reproducible & Live HTML and PDF Conference Posters Using RMarkdown
author:
  - name: Brent Thorne
    affil: 1
    orcid: '0000-0002-1099-3857'
affiliation:
  - num: 1
    address: Department of Earth Science, Brock University Canada
column_numbers: 3
logoright_name: https://www.pngkey.com/png/full/380-3806364_chilly-willy-the-penguin.png
logoleft_name: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brentthorne/posterdown/master/images/betterhexlogo.png
primary_colour: "#60c0e6"
secondary_colour: "#1c4859"
accent_colour: "#d986d5"
output: 
  posterdown::posterdown_html:
    poster_height: "36in"
    poster_width: "48in"
    self_contained: true
knit: pagedown::chrome_print 
bibliography: packages.bib
---

1

check with printer prior to size specification – works as first–level YAML command as well (if you run into issues)

2

default is self_contained: false – has consequences for any external resource requirements. Setting to true eliminates external resource dependencies

Conference Posters (II – How)

1. install pagedown & posterdown

2. FileNew FileR Markdown

3. From Templateyour preference – choose from 3 posterdown & 2 pagedown poster templates

## Available on CRAN:

install.packages("pagedown")

## Choose only 1 of the following:

remotes::install_github("brentthorne/posterdown")
pak::pak("brentthorne/posterdown")

1

core function that devtools has traditionally used (borrowed from remotes), however, devtools has depreciated install_*() functions and now recommends using pak

2

currently recommended as the most efficient way to install from

Today…

Conference Posters (II)

Options:

• posterdown – /CRAN archive, css–modified with .pdf capability via pagedown:: chrome_print()

• poster_relaxed & poster_jacobs via pagedown

• postr – flexdashboard with webshot to .png (possibly )

• \(\LaTeX\) templates (beamerposter; tikzposter; a0poster) – specify template: within YAML

Options:

• Typst template – built–in to base distribution (1.4+)

• quarto_poster – will need to fork repo (not an extension)

• User templates (peace-of-posters; typst-poster) – specify template.typ or quarto use template

Session Info (April 27, 2026) Rendering:

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] compiler_4.5.0    fastmap_1.2.0     cli_3.6.5         tools_4.5.0      
 [5] htmltools_0.5.9   otel_0.2.0        rstudioapi_0.18.0 yaml_2.3.12      
 [9] rmarkdown_2.31    knitr_1.51        jsonlite_2.0.0    xfun_0.57        
[13] digest_0.6.39     rlang_1.1.7       evaluate_1.0.5