RStudio not rendering two column powerpoint properly

Question

I'm trying to create a powerpoint presentation using RStudio, closely following these instructions. Though I'm missing something and the two columns configuration won't work. I'm using RStudio Server 1.2.5036 on a Ubuntu machine and also this rmarkdown::pandoc_version() [1] ‘2.3.1’. The troubleshooting page didn't help me either.

My code is pretty much a copypasta from the tutorial page, but to be sure, here it is:

---
title: "something"
author: "me"
date: "01/01/2020"
output:
  ioslides_presentation: default
  slidy_presentation: default
  beamer_presentation: default
  powerpoint_presentation: default
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
library("readxl")
my_data <- read_excel("data/my_data.xlsx")
```

## Intro

Loren Ipsun

## About the data

:::::::::::::: {.columns}
::: {.column}
```{r summary, echo = FALSE}
summary(my_data)
```
:::
::: {.column}
```{r boxplot, fig.height = 6, fig.width = 4, fig.align = "right"}
boxplot(my_data)
```
:::
::::::::::::::

It produces three slides, correct content but the column content shows underneath of each other. Am I missing something obvious?

thanks a lot!

You have multiple (4) output formats here --- when I tried this with the `powerpoint` and `beamer` (alone) it rendered with 2 columns, but did not with `ioslides` and `slidy`. — Ben, Jan 04 '20 at 01:11

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '20 at 17:49

There are 4 output formats in your Rmd file. If you just include powerpoint and/or beamer your knitted file should be rendered with two columns as desired.

If you want to use slidy_presentation you could do the following:

<div class='left' style='float:left;width:48%'>
  code or image for left of slide
</div>
<div class='right' style='float:right;width:48%'>
  code or image for right
</div>

as described here or with a custom layout as described here.

For ioslides_presentation, see this answer which nicely describes forcing a break between two columns with ioslides. (And again, you can simply add html tags as with the slidy_presentation example above.)

RStudio not rendering two column powerpoint properly

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