Render a pptx using R Markdown with a header and a figure output in a single slide

mara · February 21, 2019, 11:16am

Try taking a look at some of the gists and code in this thread. None of the ones directly in the thread have images, per se, but they all work with headers and two columns of output which, presumably, could include a figure on one of the sides:

rmarkdown: how can you show the title and the content of a two column slide in the same slide? R Markdown

Hi, As part of our LIBD rstats club, we recently attended (virtually) Nathan Stephen's webinar on using R Markdown for creating PowerPoint presentations (on 2018-11-28) (should appear here soon, raw files). We were able to play around with using templates and could do most of the things Nathan showcased. We however ran into an issue where we couldn't get the title of a slide to show up in the same slide as a two column slide. Here's our Rmd file https://gist.github.com/lcolladotor/2bb1878ae11b1cd5ff554c0e10125aa0 that uses the template from https://github.com/sol-eng/powerpoint/blob/master/vignettes/template.potx and as far as we can see, we are following the same mark up as in https://gith…