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R Workshop V: Slidify Package: Interactive Docs from R Markdown

Written by Jun Zhao | Sep 27, 2013 11:22:58 AM

Many thanks go to Ramnath Vaidyanathan for giving such a great speech!

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Meetup Announcement:

In this workshop, people learned how to use Slidify to create, customize and share interactive web documents using R Markdown.

Speaker:

Ramnath Vaidyanathan, our Advisory Data Scientist and rCharts/Slidfy/Shiny Instructor.Dr. Vaidyanathan is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at McGill University.  He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Wharton School of UP, and worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company before advising SupStat. He has great passion for R and has developed two R packages, Slidify and rCharts, both aiming at simplifying the creation and sharing of interactive web-based content with R.

Mode:

Webcast Workshop

Outline:

- Introduction to Slidify

- Authoring a Document

- Styling with Frameworks

- Customizing using Layouts

- Extending with Widgets

- Articles, Blogs and More!

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Other Useful Info Link:

Materials: https://github.com/slidify/workshops/