Create Your Resume with Pagedown Package in R

Making impressive resume under 1 hour with pagedown package in R

Abhinav Malasi
Towards Data Science

In the past, I always dreamt of making my resume using LaTeX, but the learning curve to achieve that polished looked never materialized. So, I always ended up making my resume using word documents and silently endured the alignment struggles that entailed.

Recently, I was going through the same cycle of updating my resume and spent a lot of time on alignment. Then I thought, let’s see if there is a permanent solution to this, and by chance, I pondered upon this lovely blog by Nick Strayer, which provides a very simple solution to automate resume building by dividing sections of resume into different CSV files. And further adding an option to choose sub-sections to show up on the resume. This style gives the flexibility to create targeted resumes for different job types. The built-in resume template from the pagedown package takes care of the formatting of the resume. So, in a way, this is a hassle-free solution that I had been looking for long.

Inspired by the blog, I created this detailed tutorial to build the resume adding details which I felt were not adequately covered in the blog (people like me with no or very less knowledge of CSS).

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Responses (6)

Thank you so much!
How can I justify/align the supporting text?

Please how can I add the css file you talked about?do I have to open a css file in R?

I tried both options of generating PDF on the browser tab and got this message when i tried to knit : Error in find_chrome() : Cannot find Chromium or Google Chrome
Calls: <Anonymous> -> find_chrome
Execution halted
How can I resolve this?

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