From the course: Creating Reports and Presentations with R Markdown and RStudio

What are Slidy, ioslides, and Beamer? - RStudio Tutorial

From the course: Creating Reports and Presentations with R Markdown and RStudio

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What are Slidy, ioslides, and Beamer?

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- [Instructor] The three most widely used presentation formats in RMarkdown are Slidy, ioslides and Beamer. These presentation formats are output formats and therefore set the YAML header of a .ond file. It's extremely simple to switch between these three presentation formats by just changing the output option. There are zero differences in how Markdown is interpreted in these formats. However, if you use other presentation formats, Eg. Powerpoint, or xarigan, you will likely need to modify your content, as well as the YAML header. Both Slidy presentation and ioslides presentation generate HTML presentations, ie. documents that we can view inside of a web browser. We're able to see these presentations inside of RStudio, because the application has a built in web browser which is based off Chromium. Because these presentations are HTML, we can use CSS, JavaScript, and our own HTML to beautify and customize our slide decks. Both of these HTML presentation formats can be published directly from RStudio, so they're free to use RPubs platform or to RStudio Connect. However, they are quite distinct from one another in how they look, and they have both disadvantages and advantages to one another. The final format is Beamer presentation. Which is a LaTeX class designed for producing PDF slide decks. There are wide range of different styles and templates available for customizing your Beamer presentations.

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