Package 'BiocCertificate'

Title: Generate Conference Certificates
Description: A shiny app to generate conference certificates and letters from templates. The interactive app allows the user to enter their name and generate a PDF file for download. The app uses rmarkdown to render PDF certificates and letters with the default pdflatex engine.
Authors: Marcel Ramos [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Marcel Ramos <[email protected]>
License: Artistic-2.0
Version: 0.99.7
Built: 2024-09-16 18:18:19 UTC
Source: https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocCertificate

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Generate a Bioconductor conference attendance certificate

Description

The function invokes a shiny app for attendees to generate their own certificate of attendance. This is done with the provided event identifier (⁠Event ID⁠). Attendees must enter the event identifier and their full name in the app and click on submit. An iframe pop-up will show the certificate along with a download / print button.

Usage

BiocCertificate(...)

Arguments

...

Inputs to the main function are not used.

Details

Note that LaTeX is used to generate the PDF certificate and letter. The LaTeX templates are stored in the inst directory of the package. Consider installing tinytex R package and running install_tinytex() to ensure that the necessary LaTeX packages are available. The default engine in the template is pdflatex. Currently, changing this value is not supported without modifying the template.

Value

Called for the side effect of displaying the shiny app.