README.md

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ehastyle

R Markdown templates for EcoHealth Alliance presentations, dashboards, and reports.

Why use rmarkdown and templates?

The biggest advantage of rmarkdown is that it allows you to dynamically generate content. That means plots, tables, text, etc will change as your code or data change. For example, you are working on a presentation for a conference and continually refining the plots. If you build your presentation in rmarkdown then export to powerpoint (ppt), you won’t have to worry about having the most up-to-date plot or have to deal with managing a folder full of presentation_plot_final_final.png type files. Your plots will be stored in your presentation and update along with your code and data.

The next super power using rmarkdown gives you is reproducibility. Because your code and content are stored in a single .rmd file, it is easy to track exactly how a figure is being generated and to share the file with collaborators. If you track your file with version control (GIT), then you will also be able to see how your document has changed through time and who has made those changes.

By using templates, we can produce consistently styled content across the organization with minimal effort. As style guides change, we can update the templates and retroactively change the styling of content with a single line of code.

Installation

Install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ecohealthalliance/ehastyle")

Example

The functions in this package are generally used in the yaml of rmarkdown documents.

---
title: "EHA Presentation"
subtitle: "EHA Subtitle"
author: Your Name
output:
  ehastyle::eha_classic_pptx:
    aspect: 16x9
---

You can use rmarkdown::draft to create files from the templates in the package.

rmarkdown::draft(file = "myfile.rmd",template = "eha-classic-pptx", package = "ehastyle")

The package currently contains the following templates:

• eha-avenir-pptx
• eha-avenir-xaringan
• eha-classic-pptx
• eha-classic-xaringan
• eha-predict-pptx
• eha-xaringan
• flexdash-airtable

How to use rmarkdown templates

There are two ways to use the templates contained in this package.

1. Restart rstudio after installing the package

2. Use the Rstudio GUI

3. Open a markdown file

4. Click on the from template option

• Select the template you would like to use

• Modify the template

• Knit and save your content

• Revel in the glory of your creation

• Use rmarkdown::draft

• Start with rmarkdown::draft then follow the same steps as above

rmarkdown::draft(file = "myfile.rmd",template = "eha-classic-pptx", package = "ehastyle")

See R Markdown: The Definitive Guide and Markdown Cookbook for more information.

Slide presentations

This package contains classic, avenir, and predict presentation templates that can be used with an aspect ratio of 16x9 or 4x3 to generate ppt or html based slides.

Functions follow this form eha_template_output. For exampleeha_avenir_xar will generate html based slides using the {xaringan} package and the avenir font.

classic will always contain the standard slide theme as defined by our communications professionals.

avenir will contain a variation of classic that uses the avenir font.

predict contains a legacy template from EcoHealth Alliance’s work with USAID predict.

Other templates will be added as needed.

Dashboards

This package currently contains a single function and template for creating {flexdashboard} rmd documents.

Flexdashboards allow you to create dashboards with ease. You can embed static or dynamic plots or elements without having to learn rshiny.

Hosting Fonts on AWS

The Avenir font used in the different templates is currently hosted on AWS instance in an S3 bucket called font-avenir. There are two files, one is a woff2 font file and the other is a css document describing the font face. This workflow could be adapted for other templates that require a custom/proprietary font.

See: https://blog.arrowtype.com/host-webfont-on-aws/

ecohealthalliance/ehastyle documentation built on Jan. 28, 2023, 12:14 a.m.