Lately, I have been using R to create presentations. In particular, I use the xaringan package to create html slides. Because there was no theme that fits the style of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), I created a css file with a VUB theme. You can download the theme from my github page: https://github.com/timvantilborgh/VUB-theme-xaringan
Why would I want to use xaringan?
Creating your slides in R with xaringan has a couple of benefits:
- You don’t need to focus on the layout, and can focus on the content instead.
- You can embed R code in the slides using code chunks. This means that you can integrate the output of analyses in your slides immediately. For example, you don’t need to copy-and-paste a correlation table into your powerpoint presentation, but just run the analysis and print the result in your R presentation.
- If you work with git, then you have a proper version-control system for your slides.
- You can use Latex in your presentation, meaning that you can easily work with formulas.
Given that I teach methodological courses, using R for my slides makes my life a lot easier.
If you want to see an example of xaringan slides in action (not with the VUB theme), check here