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Create Book of Abstracts

Source: R/abstractbook.R
create_abstractbook.Rd

Create a book of abstracts given a dataframe or tibble.

Usage

create_abstractbook(
  data = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  filename = NULL,
  title.column = NULL,
  authors.column = NULL,
  affiliation.column = NULL,
  text.column = NULL,
  frontpage = NULL,
  toc = TRUE,
  toc.title = "Index",
  title.cex = 22,
  authors.cex = 16,
  affiliations.cex = 14,
  text.cex = 14,
  keep.files = FALSE,
  template = NULL
)

Arguments

data

a data frame including titles, author names, affiliations and abstracts.

path

Character. Path to folder where the PDF file will be saved.

filename

Character. Filename of the pdf. If NULL, default is "AbstractBook".

title.column

Character. Name of the column in data storing abstracts' titles.

authors.column

Character. Name of the column in data storing authors' names and affiliations. Numeric (and symbol, e.g. '*') affiliations MUST be specified between brackets. Authors must be separated using a semi-colon (';').

affiliation.column

Character. Name of the column in data storing the addresses for each affiliation number (specified between brackets after author names, in authors.column). Separations between authors must be specified using a semi-colon (';').

text.column

Name of the column in data storing the abstract text.

frontpage

Character. Path to PDF file to be inserted before the book of abstracts (as front page and/or introduction).

toc

Logical. If TRUE, a Table of Contents will be included.

toc.title

Character. Title to name the Table of Contents. Default is "Index".

title.cex

Text font size used for the title. Default is 22.

authors.cex

Text font size used for the authors' names. Default is 16.

affiliations.cex

Text font size used for the affiliation addresses Default is 14.

text.cex

Text font size used for the abstract main text body. Default is 14.

keep.files

Logical. Keep the RMarkdown template and associated files in the output folder? Default is FALSE.

template

Character (optional) RMarkdown template to use. If not provided, using the default template included in labeleR.

Value

A PDF file named after filename is saved on disk, in the folder defined by path. If keep.files = TRUE, an RMarkdown will also appear in the same folder.

Details

You can copy and modify at your convenience this Google form template to retrieve abstract information which will match labeleR's requirements for a straightforward use.

Author

Ignacio Ramos-Gutierrez, Julia G. de Aledo, Jimena Martín-Mateo, Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
create_abstractbook(
data=abstract.table,
path = "labeleR_output",
filename = "congress_abstractbook",
title.column = "abstract_title",
authors.column = "authors",
affiliation.column = "affiliation",
text.column = "abstract_text",
title.cex = 20,
authors.cex = 15,
affiliations.cex = 14,
text.cex = 12,
frontpage = "Congress_frontpage.pdf"
)
}