Create badges — create_badge • labeleR

Create badges (8 badges per DIN-A4 page)

Usage

create_badge(
  data = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  filename = NULL,
  event = NULL,
  name.column = NULL,
  affiliation.column = NULL,
  lpic = NULL,
  rpic = NULL,
  font = NULL,
  keep.files = FALSE,
  template = NULL
)

Arguments

data: a data frame including names and (optionally) affiliations.
path: Character. Path to folder where the PDF file will be saved.
filename: Character. Filename of the pdf. If NULL, default is "Badges".
event: Character. Title of the event.
name.column: Character. Name of the column in data storing participants' name.
affiliation.column: Character (optional). Name of the column in data storing participants' affiliation.
lpic: Character (optional) Path to a PNG image to be located in the badge top-left.
rpic: Character (optional) Path to a PNG image to be located in the badge top-right.
font: Character. Font face to use. Default is Latin Modern. NOTE: not all fonts are supported, so unexpected results may occur. A list of fonts is available at https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/opentypefonts.html. See Details for more information.
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 "Badges.pdf" is saved on disk, in the folder defined by path. If keep.files = TRUE, an RMarkdown and PNG lpic and rpic files will also appear in the same folder.

Details

font Not all fonts can be used. Consider only those which are stated to be 'Part of TeX Live', and have OTF and TT available. Additionally, fonts whose 'Usage' differs from \normalfont, \itshape and \bfseries usually fail during installation and/or rendering.

Several fonts tried that seem to work are:

libertinus
accanthis
Alegreya
algolrevived
almendra
antpolt
Archivo
Baskervaldx
bitter
tgbonum
caladea
librecaslon
tgchorus
cyklop
forum
imfellEnglish
LobsterTwo
quattrocento

Author

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

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
create_badge(
  data = badges.table,
  path = "labeleR_output",
  filename = NULL,
  event = "INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF MUGGLEOLOGY",
  name.column = "List",
  affiliation.column = "Affiliation",
  font = "libertinus",
  lpic = NULL,
  rpic = NULL)
}