Since I’m on about the terminal and command line, I thought I might mention a small (free) program that is very helpful: Go2Shell. ![]() Maybe I won’t use use deck.rb for this presentation, but I will keep an eye on any developments. I couldn’t figure out how to easily get MathJax support to display equations. It only allows you to use the Swiss template. The slideshow opens as a locally hosted webserver, and the command to build a stand alone HTML presentation doesn’t seem to work that well (hence no example included with this post). However, I’ve classified this as aspirational since it lacks a lot of functionality that Pandoc has, including: You can easily build presentations in the command line with: The Markdown syntax is really simple and would be familiar to Pandoc users (individual slides are demarcated with the first level header #).Īfter you install deck.rb in the terminal with the usual: I generally prefer deck.js to the three Pandoc HTML presentation types ( slidy, S5, and dzslides).ĭeck.js presentations are a pain to write, so it would be great if there was a program like Pandoc that could quickly convert a Markdown file into a deck.js presentation. Maybe out of procrastination I decided to see if there was any way to use knitr/Markdown to write a deck.js presentation. I am currently using this combination to put together a presentation based on a recent working paper. ![]() I just wanted to add two quick things (one mostly aspirational, the other useful) Aspirational: Markdown/Ruby/deck.js There has been some interest in the recent release of RStudio 0.96 and especially the ability to use combine its knitr Markdown functionality with Pandoc to integrate R and a variety of different documents types.
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