two-column layouts in RStudio presentations/slidify/pandoc

Question

I\'m trying to come up with a good system for generating slides and accompanying handouts. The ideal system would have the following properties:

• beautiful in b

Answer 1

There is a workaround for beamer error.

In short: Error is related to pandoc conversion engine, which treats everything between \begin{...} and \end{...} as TeX. It can be avoided by giving new definition for begin{column} and end{column} in yaml header.

Create mystyle.tex and write there:

\def\begincols{\begin{columns}}
\def\begincol{\begin{column}}
\def\endcol{\end{column}}
\def\endcols{\end{columns}}

In the Rmd file use these new definitions

---
output:
  beamer_presentation:
    includes:
      in_header: mystyle.tex
---


Two Column Layout 
-------

\begincols
  \begincol{.48\textwidth}

This slide has two columns.

  \endcol
\begincol{.48\textwidth}

```{r}
#No error here i can run any r code
plot(cars)
```

  \endcol
\endcols

And you get: