Awesome CV in R

This CV uses the Awesome CV template and was made using the vitae package in R. I originally got started with the template from Dominique Makowski, and made several changes over the years.

Instructions

1. Clone/download this entire repository to your computer.
2. Open the project in RStudio (double-click cv/cv.Rproj). All CV files live inside the cv/ folder to keep the root clean.
3. Required packages will be installed automatically on first knit (LaTeX is also required — install via tinytex).
4. Edit cv.Rmd — the setup block is organized into clearly labeled sections:
   • YOUR SETTINGS (MUST EDIT): language, name, Google Scholar profile, etc.
   • OPTIONAL SETTINGS: caching, Scholar exclusions/corrections, header color.
   • PACKAGE SETUP (DO NOT MODIFY): auto-loads and auto-installs packages.
5. Edit the individual .Rmd files in the sections/ folder to customize content.
6. Knit cv.Rmd to produce cv.pdf (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+K).
7. For a French CV, knit cv_fr.Rmd instead — it produces cv_fr.pdf. All section files are bilingual and shared between both files.

Bilingual Support

All section files in sections/ support both English and French. The language is controlled by a single language setting ("EN" or "FR") in the setup block. Two entry-point files exist because the YAML header (job title, about-me paragraph, LaTeX packages) differs by language:

• cv.Rmd → English CV (cv.pdf)
• cv_fr.Rmd → French CV (cv_fr.pdf)

Google Scholar

The template can automatically fetch your publication data from Google Scholar for an impact summary (citation plot and table). Configure these settings in the setup block:

• scholar.profile: your Google Scholar profile ID (from the URL).
• author.name: your short author name as it appears on Google Scholar.
• refresh_scholar: set to TRUE to force re-fetching (default: use cache).
• cache_days: how many days before the cache expires (default: 1).
• scholar_exclude: publications to hide (e.g., preprints listed elsewhere).
• scholar_name_fixes: fix author name inconsistencies from Google Scholar.
• scholar_author_corrections: fix author order for specific papers.
• scholar_append_author: append your name to papers where it’s missing.

Note: Google Scholar has no official API — the scholar R package scrapes the web page. Excessive requests may trigger rate limiting (HTTP 429). The built-in caching avoids this during normal use.

Tips

• Request a short version by setting short to TRUE in cv.Rmd.
• Add eval = !short to code chunk options to make them optional for the short version.
• If you are using a word processor as well as RStudio, one tip to save time is to change the relevant content section (e.g., publications.Rmd) View from Source to Visual (top left in RStudio) before copy-pasting your publications and other formatted content. This way, all the existing formatting (bold, italic, etc.) will be kept and you won’t have to manually recreate all the formatting.
• It is also possible to import data from other sources automatically (ORCID, Google Scholar, etc.), but I have not personally experimented with this yet. More info can be found here.

Notes

• This template uses the North-American 8.5in x 11in (letter) size instead of the original European 8.27 x 11.69 (A4) size.
• Special characters (e.g., $, &, %) need to be escaped with a backslash or a double backslash.
• The template uses some LaTeX language at times for specific customization (commands starting with backslashes \). Some useful commands include:
  • \pagebreak to create a page break between sections
  • \scriptsize to make text smaller (typically for publications sections)
  • \normalsize to make text normal (for regular sections)
  • \\textit{yourtext} to italicize yourtext (within dataframes, outside of regular rmarkdown)
  • \\hspace{0.5cm} to create some left space (e.g., between columns in tables)
  • \\dotfill to create dotted lines (e.g., for the award section)
  • \setlength{\parindent}{-0.2in} and \setlength{\leftskip}{0.2in} to indent publications, “hanging” style.
• For specific font sizes, consider the following reference:

For questions or difficulties, feel free to open a GitHub issue here.

Demos

My long CV is available for demonstration here: https://remi-theriault.com/cv

My short CV is available for demonstration here: https://remi-theriault.com/cv_short.pdf