R Markdown Slide Utilities

R Markdown Slide Utilities contains functions you can use to add custom content to R Markdown slide decks, including:

• Generate image builds from a series of PNG files

• Embed summary charts from a Google Form survey

• Add emojis with quotations

• Generate small HTML pages for exercise hints and solutions, populated by a Google Sheet, with an option to create bitly links to insert in a Rmd or R file

• Customize the CSS of SVGs created by DiagrammeR (coming soon)

Installation

slideutils is on GitHub as well as R-universe. You can install it with:

options(repos = c(ajlyons = 'https://ajlyons.r-universe.dev',
                 CRAN = 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))
install.packages('slideutils')

OR

remotes::install_github("ucanr-igis/slideutils")

To see if its working:

library(slideutils)

History

These utilities were originally part of the wrkshputils package. They were split off into their own package mostly to make wrkshputils lighter, and because the functions in slideutils are generally only needed by slide content creators.