simChef: an intuitive framework for reliable simulation studies in R

Poster for useR! 2022.

• HTML version

Authors

• James Duncan, UC Berkeley -- Biostatistics
• Tiffany Tang, UC Berkeley -- Statistics
• Corrine F. Elliott, UC Berkeley -- Statistics
• Philippe Boileau, UC Berkeley -- Biostatistics
• Bin Yu, UC Berkeley -- Statistics, EECS, and Biostatistics

Poster creation

This poster uses a custom R Markdown HTML template that integrates the accessible and responsive template from cpitclaudel/academic-poster-template with the Pandoc default HTML5template.

Poster blocks

Each "level 1" header tag added to the body of poster.Rmd using # is converted to a poster block heading and the content below the # until the next # is inserted into the poster block body. For example, # Example will create a poster block with heading "Example" and body from the content below # Example. As this is R Markdown, that content can include code and outputs, (interactive) plots, LaTeX, etc. If you don't want to include any text in the heading, just use a # followed by no text.

Custom poster block styling

To add a CSS class for custom styling on a single block, use {.my-class} after the # and text, e.g. # Got Style {.my-style}.

Block with empty background

One built-in custom style is an empty background, which is useful for including stand-alone images that would look awkward with the default poster block style.

To prevent the poster block styling and instead get a blank background that still respects the poster layout flow, you can add {.no-block} after the # and its text. For example, # {.no-block} will create an empty space with no heading, while # Empty {.no-block} will create an empty space with heading "Empty".

To combine this with a custom style, you can add as many classes as you want separated by a space: # Empty {.no-block .my-style}.

Rmd to HTML conversion details

To convert from the main markdown content in poster.Rmd to the HTML format needed by cpitclaudel/academic-poster-template, there is a small bit of custom JS in the template which searches for HTML elements with the classes section and level1. rmarkdown/pandoc create these elements when converting # to the corresponding HTML.