You can render PowerPoint presentations from R Markdown documents. This capability is made possible by recent improvements to Pandoc. See Rendering PowerPoint Presentations with RStudio for more information.
See: bto_powerpoint.Rmd
You can generate most elements supported by Pandoc’s Markdown with the PowerPoint output including: Inline formatting, lists, LaTeX math expressions/equations, hyperlinks, block quotations,ß and more. PowerPoint output also supports these nice features:
- Images and tables
- Columns
- Speaker notes
- Templates
RStudio version 1.2 bundles Pandoc 2 making it easy to create PowerPoint presentations in R.
See the Pandoc manual for specific details. Note: If you want to change the slide size or design you should make those changes in a PowerPoint template and then include reference_doc: mytemplate.pptx in the YAML header.