Reproducible Corporate Publications using pagedown

The pagedown package is a new package for producing PDF documents from R Markdown. It uses a different technology stack: PDF documents are created using a web browser and HTML/CSS. It offers a new opportunity for creating reproducible publications and is well adapted to design corporate publications.

Using HTML and CSS for print documents is an opportunity for organizations that already possess skills in web design: they can re-use these skills to design print documents.

This communication presents, based on several examples, the different steps for developing a template compliant with a corporate design.