I'm trying to achieve the basic layout that 99% of presentations use where a slide has a title some text below that and then an image below that with text to its side. Apparently, this is a very difficult task to accomplish in rstudio presentations (the link here was no help). How do I go about doing it? Below is what I'm looking for (made in powerpoint):
Here's what I've tried thus far:
Title
====================================
incremental: false
<font color = "darkred">
Additional Text Goes Here</font>
<div align="center">
<img src="fake.png">
</div>
***
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
- Text goes here
- Text goes here
- Text goes here
Which clearly produces a ridiculous outcome:
Problems with the current output:
Here's my attempt at addressing those issues:
Title
====================================
incremental: false
<p> </p>
<div style="margin-left: 1em;">
<font color = "darkred">
Additional Text Goes Here</font>
</div>
<p> </p>
<div align="center">
<img src="fake.png">
</div>
***
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
- Text goes here
- Text goes here
- Text goes here
And I tried
<div style="padding: 10px;">
<font color = "darkred">
Additional Text Goes Here</font>
</div>
Both of those did nothing, I tried messing around with the css and added the following:
<style>
p {
text-indent: 240px;
}
</style>
Which produced the following:
But some major problems persist:
p
to the appropriate header lable h5
(5th page) but that did nothing.<p> </p>
but then the spacing is too close (like in the first image)My knowledge of html and css is next to nothing so thanks for bearing with me. I simply in disbelief that the most basic feature of slide shows is some how missing from Rstudio's quintessential format of presentations (images with text above and adjacent) -clearly I must be missing something. Any help is much appreciated.
Oh and two final points -when I turn to the actual slide it appears exactly how I want it (if I've gotten rid of the spacing and css styles) for perhaps less than a second or 2 (while its rendering). Also, I thought I'd check Rpubs just to check my sanity -assuming there would be tones of projects with this layout on there. I went through maybe 30 different presentations and either 1) the presentation did not have a layout slide in the form I desire (2/3rds of them) and the remaining presentations that did have a layout all were suffering from the exact same problem I am. Every single presentation with a format like that look absolutely terrible like the images above. I guess the good folks at Rstudio are busier with more important tools than making Rstudio presentation format a reasonable choice of slideshow to use, which is absolutely fine. Unfortunately, slidify is a nightmare in developmental purgatory, beamer's templates are very arcane looking, and I cant find a single example of an ioslide project on the internet so I didn't even bother going down that rabbit hole. I'm open to suggestions of other presentations formats that can be used with R otherwise I'm stuck taking screenshots of my R output and code to to upload to a powerpoint (****cringe****). Thanks.
I seem to have found a "solution". In the examples I posted above I was examining the plots in Rstudio's Viewer as well as in my Safari browser. Both produced identical results but I decided to give it a go with Chrome and Firefox and they both produced the same nice looking format. I guess Rstudio presentation's formats are browser dependent -perhaps not surprising as I've seen different browsers recommended for different sites/uses but I did not see anything in regards to that documented on Rstudio's help forum.
UPDATE: I just double checked the documentation for Rstudio and it looks like they say chrome, firefox, ie, and safari are supported.
UPDATE 2: I just spotted another discrepancy between the browser outputs. When I go into full screen mode (using the key F
) in Firefox everything is fine as expected and in Safari everything looks as it does in non-full screen. In Chrome fullscreen, however, the background color of the all the slides following the title slide are rendered black. This has been noted elsewhere too.
I'm baffled. I just have to prey that any subsequent obstacles I face aren't specific to firefox since I'm running low on browsers and I'll move to powerpoint before installing IE on my computer.