The R Markdown Source Documents of My Presentations

Yihui Xie 2018-03-06

Since I have been asked several times how I created my slides, I’m going to share a little secret about my slides in this short post: most of my slides in the recent years were generated from R Markdown,1 and you can easily obtain the .Rmd source documents if you replace the extension .html with .Rmd in the address bar of your web browser. That’s it. For example, for the slides at

https://slides.yihui.org/2018-blogdown-rstudio-conf-Yihui-Xie.html

The Rmd source file can be obtained from:

https://slides.yihui.org/2018-blogdown-rstudio-conf-Yihui-Xie.Rmd

I host most of my slides in my Dropbox folder and serve them through Updog,2 so I don’t need to explicitly upload them to a server, and you have access to any files in this folder.

  1. The more recent ones were created via the xaringan package. Previously I had used Slidy, revealjs, and ioslides in R Markdown. ↩︎

  2. It is a little expensive now, but I was fortunate enough to catch the train early when the lifetime membership only cost me five dollars. ↩︎