Presentations

From R Markdown to Quarto

Andrew Bray

UC Berkeley

Mine Çetinkaya Rundel

Duke University + Posit

Anatomy of a Quarto presentation

Components

1. Metadata: YAML

2. Text: Markdown

3. Code: Executed via knitr or jupyter

Weave it all together, and you have a beautiful, functional slide deck!

Our turn

Let’s build a presentation together from hello-penguins-slides.qmd and showcase the following features of Quarto presentations:

• Hierarchy, headers, and document outline

• Incremental lists

• Columns and tabsets

• Code, output location, code highlighting

• Logo and footer

• Making things fit on a slide

• Chalkboard

• Publishing your presentation to Quarto Pub

• Printing to PDF

Your turn

Pick up where we left off and

• Change the transition style between slides

• Change the slide size

• Add slide numbers

15:00

Our turn

Let’s continue building our a presentation together from hello-penguins-slides.qmd and showcase the following features of Quarto presentations:

• Fragments

• Animations

• Title slide attributes

• Speaker notes

Wrap up

Quarto presentation formats

• revealjs for HTML slides

  • Essentially the replacement for xaringan, but with Pandoc-native syntax

• beamer for LaTeX slides

• PowerPoint for when you have to collaborate via MS Office

Learn more

quarto.org/docs/presentations

Questions

Any questions / anything you’d like to review before we wrap up this module?