RStudio and knitr are an excellent conbination for generating dynamic reports. But in this blog, I will show you how to generate HTML-style presentaion using R only.

OK, I confess that we still need something else: deck.js and markdown and R.utils.

• deck.js is an JavaScrip together with some css and html files which define the slide section, structures, fonts, colors, etc.
• markdown is a R-package which can convert markdown format to html format.
• R.utils is a R-package. we will use its copyDirectory function for copying all context under a folder.

The idea is simple:

1. Create an empty folder, such like “C:/demo”;
2. Copy the deck.js folder to the above directory. “C:/demo/deck.js”
3. Create an empty ASCII format file, ending with .md, which is the main file containing the contexts which will be presented.
4. Convert the markdown file to html format using the function markdownToHTML in R-package markdown.
5. Insert the above html file into the template for deck.js presentaion.

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install.packages("c:/download/htmlSlide_1.0.zip")
library(htmlSlide)
htmlSlide(file = "demo")

This is an simple example. The source file can be downloaded here.