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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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)
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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)
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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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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)
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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)
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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:
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.
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):
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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