vitae

I have created this repo to provide an example of how RMarkdown can be used to create a (mostly) data-driven CV. At the moment, I know that there are two R packages:

• vitae which has excellent examples, but I was not able to easily merge my old latex CV to their format and I had some errors in compiling some of their examples on my windows machine. This is probably due to issues on my end (coding skills, windows setup, etc).
• datadrivencv

I have used examples from both of their vignettes to build the data for my CV. However, I have resorted here to a traditional pdf_document in rmarkdown instead of using their templates. My pdf document capitalizes on some latex code that I have defined in the structure.txt file.

Some (Possibly) Cool Features in My Vitae Code

• I am capitalizing on RMarkdown's parametrized reporting so you can change multiple inputs to "quickly" generate a CV.
• I capitalize on the scholar package to extract all my publications from google scholar. Using the parameterized reporting, I have introduced symbols to denote undergraduate and graduate students in the print out.
• I have also capitalized on code from the Vitae Repo Issues to swap_initials(), and modified the excellent format_publications() from the scholar package to read in a tibble instead of re-scraping the data from the Google API.

Main Weakness

• In this form, all inputs are required. The current form is a paramaterized rmarkdown and not a package. I am not releasing this as a package but rather here is how I generated my partially data-driven CV.
  • Remedies:
    • if you do not want to utilize one input, you will have to delete its code (or add include=FALSE) to the code chunk.
    • A lot of the paramters may not need to change; e.g., if you have not published with undergrads, you do not need to change my input paramaters since those names will not be in your publication list.