Instant Impact: Developing {docorator} to Simplify R Adoption for Teams

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{docorator} is an open source R package that turns gt tables and ggplots into production-ready PDFs by wrapping Quarto/LaTeX pipelines and the fancyhdr LaTeX library, providing as_docorator objects and a render_pdf step. It auto-sizes wide GT tables across pages, embeds headers/footers with study metadata for traceability, and reduces teams creating ad hoc workarounds (avoiding many parallel scripts at GSK). It already renders PDF and basic RTF, lives on GitHub, and is queued for CRAN.

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1. 0:00Docorator introduction
2. 1:52Pharma’s open source adoption
3. 3:39PDF output gap
4. 5:06Production output requirements
5. 7:15Why LaTeX is the best path to PDF
6. 9:00R Markdown and Quarto
7. 10:08Docorator simplification
8. 11:33Custom headers and footers
9. 12:59Scaling large datasets
10. 14:50Generalizing Docorator
11. 16:18Future adaptability
12. 18:05Closing and contribution

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