Beamer-Rmd-Notes-Slides

The Slide_template.Rmd is an R Markdown template that illustrates how to easily generate Beamer slides. This has been tested using RStudio.

It also allows one to generate plain 'notes' slides, which can be easily all excluded or all included in the resulting set of slides by toggling a setting in the header_pagenrs.tex file.

For a more elegant approach, see Lincoln Mullen's code

One can include notes slides as follows:

1. In the R Markdown preamble, include a LaTeX header file using code like this:

output:   
  beamer_presentation:   
     theme: "Warsaw"   
     includes:  
        in_header: header_pagenrs.tex  

2. In the included LaTeX header file, include these lines:

% \setbeameroption{hide notes}  
% \setbeameroption{show notes}  
\setbeameroption{show notes}   
\setbeamertemplate{note page}[plain]   

3. To insert a note for a given slide, after the text for that slide and before the start of the next slide, include this:

\note{  
\begin{center}  
\textbf{NOTE}   
\end{center}   

 This is a test note.  Toggle by altering 'setbeameroption' in header_pagenrs.tex
}

4. Remember that the text within the \note{} will be interpreted as LaTeX code, so you may need to escape any "%" symbols, etc.

5. To generate a PDF with the notes pages included, set it to this in the LaTeX header file:

\setbeameroption{show notes}

To generate a PDF of only the slides without any notes pages, set it to this in the LaTeX header file:

\setbeameroption{hide notes}