Steve's Beamer Template — beamer • stevetemplates

This is the R Markdown template I use for in-class or in-person presentations. For a discussion of some of its features, see here: http://svmiller.com/blog/2019/08/r-markdown-template-beamer-presentations/.

Usage

beamer(...)

templ_beamer()

Arguments

...: Arguments to rmarkdown::beamer_presentation.

Details

Note that xelatex is not required for this template but is heavily suggested. If you elect to use xelatex, you must supply something in titlefont: and mainfont: that your particular LaTeX installation will recognize. See discussion here: https://github.com/svmiller/stevetemplates/issues/4

About YAML header fields

FIELD	DESCRIPTION
`title`	Title of the presentation
`subtitle`	Subtitle of the presentation. Optional, but useful. For in-class lectures, I put the class name here.
`institute`	List your department/college here. Optional.
`titlegraphic`	Put a path to university watermark here. Optional.
`scaletg`	Scale `titlegraphic` relative to the width of the document. Optional, defaults to .25.
`make149`	Logical, gives 14:9 dimension to presentation (my favorite). Optional, defaults to FALSE.
`mainfont`	The main font to use with `xelatex`. I use `Open Sans` here. Optional, but recommended.
`titlefont`	The font for slide titles. I use `Titillium Web` here. Optional, but recommended.
`primarycolor`	Specifies a "primary" color in six-digit RGB color. Defaults to `522D80`. Optional.
`secondarycolor`	Specifies a "secondary" color in six-digit RGB color. Defaults to `F56600`. Optional.