Create a presentation in PowerPoint

mishabalyasin · June 13, 2018, 8:33am

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(Quietly) Announcing the PowerPoint support in R Markdown R Markdown

Some of rstudio::conf 2018 attendees might still remember my quick whisper about the PowerPoint support in R Markdown. In fact, PPT has been supported in the rmarkdown package since early Jan this year, but there were still several improvements to make (in Pandoc and the RStudio IDE). Today we think it should be good enough for brave beta testers to try it out. Due to the fact that it requires the preview build of RStudio (not strictly true, but the RStudio preview build will make several things easier), please do us a favor not to publicize it on social media at the moment. The full documentation for the PowerPoint format in R Markdown can be found at: You will realize that this is actua…