Introduction
Recently, I was invited to give a presentation about my background and current work. I initially developed a slide deck using PowerPoint, but I wasn’t happy with the flow and format. I wanted something that had smooth transitions and unique fonts. And, I wanted something non-PowerPoint.
I remember seeing some of my classmates using Latex to build their
slide presentations. So, I looked into seeing whether there was
something similar with R Markdown. fortunately, R Markdown has a ton of
templates to build slide presentations. For example, revealjs is a package that
creates wonderful HTML slide presentations.
Here is
my HTML presentation that I constructed using revealjs.
You can also view my presentation below:
Getting started
To start building an HTML presentation, you will need to install
revealjs.
# install.packages("revealjs")Once the revealjs package is installed, you can open an
R Markdown file and select
Select the R Markdown option.
After selecting the revealjs format, you will get a
template to get your started.
Select the R Markdown option.
Then, render the HTML presentation by selecting the
Knit to revealjs_presentation option.
Select the R Markdown option.
This will generate a simple HTML presentation.
Select the R Markdown option.
From here, you can make some adjustments to each slide with your own
information. Each ## denotes the slide breaks. The
- denotes the bullets.
Notice that you can embed R code into the slide. This will be useful when you want to show output on your slide presentation.
Conclusion
This is the first part on how to construct an HTML presentation using
R Markdown and the revealjs package. In future tutorials,
we’ll learn how to use other features to customize the presentation.
Acknowledgement
I learned how to start building HTML presentations using the following resources:
revealjswebsite- Tim Mastny’s website to help embed a presentation into an R Markdown file.
Work in progress
This is a work in progress, and I’ll likely make updates as I learn more. I created this tutorial to help my future self remember how to construct an HTML presentation.