Sat, 06 Jul 2024

binb 0.0.7 on CRAN: Maintenance

The seventh release of the binb package, and first in four years, is now on CRAN. binb regroups four rather nice themes for writing LaTeX Beamer presentations much more easily in (R)Markdown. As a teaser, a quick demo combining all four themes is available; documentation and examples are in the package.

This release contains a CRAN-requested fix for a just-released new pandoc version which deals differently with overflowing bounding boxes from graphics; an added new LaTeX command is needed. We also polished continuous integration and related internals a few times but this does not contain directly user-facing changes in the package.

Changes in binb version 0.0.7 (2024-07-06)

  • Several rounds of small updates to ge continuous integration setup.

  • An additional LaTeX command needed by pandoc (>= 3.2.1) has been added.

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Wed, 10 Jun 2020

binb 0.0.6: Small enhancements

The sixth release of the binb package is now on CRAN. binb regroups four rather nice themes for writing LaTeX Beamer presentations much more easily in (R)Markdown. As a teaser, a quick demo combining all four themes follows; documentation and examples are in the package.

Via two contributed PRs, this releases adds titlepage support via the YAML header for Metropolis, and suppresses nags about the changed natbib default. A little polish on the README and Travis rounds everything off.

Changes in binb version 0.0.6 (2020-06-10)

  • Support for YAML option titlegraphic was added in Metropolis (Andras Scraka in #23).

  • The README.md file received another badge (Dirk).

  • The natbib default value was updated to accomodate rmarkdown (Joseph Stachelek in #26).

  • Travis now uses R 4.0.0 and 'bionic' (Dirk).

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Sat, 02 Nov 2019

binb 0.0.5: More improvements

The fifth release of the binb package just arrived on CRAN. binb regroups four rather nice themes for writing LaTeX Beamer presentations much more easily in (R)Markdown. As a teaser, a quick demo combining all four themes follows; documentation and examples are in the package.

This release contains some nice extensions to the Monash theme by Rob Hyndman](https://robjhyndman.com/). You can see the a longer demo in this pdf and the extended options (i.e. for titlepage) in this pdf. David Selby also correct a minor internal wart in Presento.

Changes in binb version 0.0.5 (2019-11-02)

  • The Monash theme was updated with new titlepage and font handling and an expanded demo (Rob in #20).

  • The presento theme is now correctly labeled as exported (David Selby in #22).

  • The two Monash demos are now referenced from README.md (Dirk).

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Sun, 23 Jun 2019

binb 0.0.4: Several nice improvements

The fourth release of the binb package just arrived on CRAN. binb regroups four rather nice themes for writing LaTeX Beamer presentations much more easily in in (R)Markdown. As a teaser, a quick demo combining all four themes follows; documentation and examples are in the package.

This release brings a few nice pull requests. Rob Hyndman, improved the Monash theme. Johan Larsson added support for slide notes, pgfpages and beamer options. Joseph Stachelek corrected the date setting in the Presento theme to reflect the date from the YAML header.

Changes in binb version 0.0.4 (2018-06-23)

  • The Monash theme now has improved color theme handling (Rob Hyndman in #15)

  • The Monash them has a demo, a new tighttoc option and other small improvements (Rob Hyndman in #16).

  • A slide notes example was added to Metropolis, pgfpages can be used if present, beameroption was added to three templates (Johan Larsson in #17).

  • The Presento them now use the date from the yaml header (Joseph Stachelek in #18)

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Fri, 12 Oct 2018

binb 0.0.3: Now with Monash

The third release of the binb package just arrived on CRAN, and it comes with a new (and very crispy) theme: Monash. With that we are also thrilled to welcome Rob Hyndman as a co-author.

Here is a quick demo combining all (by now four) themes:

Also, Ista made the IQSS theme more robust to font selection. Other changes:

Changes in binb version 0.0.3 (2018-10-12)

  • The IQSS theme now has a fallback font if Libertinus is unavailable (Ista in #7)

  • Added support for 'Monash' theme (Rob Hyndman in #10 and #11 closing #9)

  • Simplified some options for the 'Monash' theme (Dirk in #13)

  • The IQSS theme can now set an alternate titlegraphic (Ista in #14)

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Thu, 27 Sep 2018

binb 0.0.2: Now with presento

As tweeted three days ago, our still-new binb package with crisper Beamer themes for RMarkdown now contains presento. Versions 0.0.2 with this addition just arrived on CRAN.

Here is a quick demo combining all themes:

Otherwise, we also added links to longer vignettes to the README.md on GitHub, and Mikko Korpela helped us render the gif correctly.

The initial (short) NEWS entry follows:

Changes in binb version 0.0.2 (2018-09-27)

  • Added support for 'Presento' theme by Ratul Saha (#4)

  • Longer vignettes were added to the docs/ directory

  • The gif files in docs/ were regenerated with the density argument to convert set to 127 (Mikko Korpela in #5)

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Wed, 19 Sep 2018

binb 0.0.1: binb is not Beamer

Following a teaser tweet two days ago, we are thrilled to announce that binb version 0.0.1 arrived on CRAN earlier this evening.

binb extends a little running joke^Htradition I created a while back and joins three other CRAN packages offering RMarkdown integration:

  • tint for tint is not Tufte : pdf or html papers with a fresher variant of the famed Tufte style;
  • pinp for pinp is not PNAS : two-column pdf vignettes in the PNAS style (which we use for several of our packages);
  • linl for linl is not Letter : pdf letters

All four offer easy RMarkdown integration, leaning heavily on the awesome super-power of pandoc as well as general R glue.

This package (finally) wraps something I had offered for Metropolis via a simpler GitHub repo – a repo I put together more-or-less spur-of-the-moment-style when asked for it during the useR! 2016 conference. It also adds the lovely IQSS Beamer theme by Ista Zahn which offers a rather sophisticated spin on the original Metropolis theme by Matthias Vogelgesang.

We put two simple teasers on the GitHub repo.

Metropolis

Consider the following minimal example, adapted from the original minimal example at the bottom of the Metropolis page:

---
title: A minimal example
author: Matthias Vogelgesang
date: \today
institute: Centre for Modern Beamer Themes
output: binb::metropolis
---

# First Section

## First Frame

Hello, world!

It creates a three-page pdf file which we converted into this animated gif (which loses font crispness, sadly):

IQSS

Similarly, for IQSS we use the following input adapting the example above but showing sections and subsections for the nice headings it generates:

---
title: A minimal example
author: Ista Zahn
date: \today
institute: IQSS
output: binb::iqss
---

# First Section

## First Sub-Section

### First Frame

Hello, world!

# Second Section

## Second Subsection

### Second Frame

Another planet!

This creates this pdf file which we converted into this animated gif (also losing font crispness):

The initial (short) NEWS entry follows:

Changes in binb version 0.0.1 (2018-09-19)

  • Initial CRAN release supporting Metropolis and IQSS

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