![]() ![]() To scaffold a new presentation in your working directory (within a new folder called, in this case, "slides"). After installing and loading slidify you can run: author("slides") Slidify is hosted on GitHub and I found it easy to get started using the instructions on this page. ![]() I would definitely by interested in learning from others - please e-mail me with your experience. These were my initial impressions based on a relatively quick review. But in my initial experiments I found it harder to customize using the RStudio option and slidify seemed more flexible in it’s ability to use different JavaScript frameworks so I opted to use this package.Ĭaveat: I am a big RStudio fan and I’m the first to say that I did not do a comprehensive side-by-side comparison. My sense was that going with the R presentation option would be a “smarter” choice given that RStudio has a lot of wind in its sails and would likely support R presentation for years to come. I spent a few hours comparing the two options. There was the package slidify from Ramnath Vaidyanathan and there was R presentation using RStudio. ![]() Given the flexibility and increasing popularity of HTML/JavaScript frameworks for producing slides I was quickly convinced that this would be the way to go.įrom my perspective there were two options, both of which used R markdown and the R package knitr to knit together text and R code. Though powerful, I have never liked using LaTeX. We thought it might be helpful to share the process we used: 1. To that end, we ultimately used R markdown and and the R packages slidify and knitr (within RStudio) to creates slides that look more like this: The results were practical and the process worked fine but we needed something more flexible and more elegant. For several years we created workshop slides using Sweave, LaTeX and Beamer. We recently overhauled our R workshop to improve the flow and add a little style. ![]()
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