ismb2018: Poster I presented at ISMB2018
To generate the .html and .pdf renders, run Rscript render.R in the main directory. The final .html render can be viewed at https://artemsokolov.github.io/ismb2018/. The final .pdf is available as ismb2018.pdf.
The .html render is performed by R Markdown and requires the following R packages: flexdashboard, tidyverse, kableExtra, formattable, ggrepel, ggridges, ggforce, gtable, and of course rmarkdown. Most of these can be installed directly from CRAN via install.packages(). However, certain features might require more recent package versions available on GitHub. An example of this is the zoom panel in the mined-vs-DGE plot; to get it to render properly, you will likely need to install ggforce from https://github.com/thomasp85/ggforce.
Rendering to .pdf is done by Puppeteer, a node library for headless Chrome. Most of the guides for Rmarkdown-based posters I looked at use PhantomJS, but I've had many problems with PhantomJS output not matching what I was viewing in my Chrome browser while building the poster. To avoid headaches, I switched to Puppeteer.
Unfortunately, knitr (the engine behind R markdown) inserts a bunch of !important CSS tags that override custom color styles. A colleague of mine came up with a vim macro that removes all these tags. The macro is executed by render.R before running Puppeteer and requires that vim is installed on your system.