On Jan 29, 2014 7:46 PM, "Rick Frankel" <rick@rickster.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:57:46AM +0000, Ahmadou Dicko wrote:
> >    I love slidify too and I think that having similar functionnality in
org
> >    could be great.
> >    I think that you have everything to do that using the html backend,
you
> >    just need to interface the right Javascript/HTML5 library.
> >    In slidify you can use io2012, deck.js, shower and landslide and I
know
> >    that you can use deck.js through ox-deck and it will not be
difficult to
> >    create and interface for other library too.
> >    For example if you need a nice non Beamer library you can also check
> >    ox-reveal which interface reveal.js.
>
> Just to follow-up and expand. It looks like slidy is an interface for
> Rstudio to a number of html slide (javascript) libraries, and uses
> markdown as it markup language, while providing the ability to execute
> R code interspersed with the markup (literate programming/reproducable
> results)
>
> Org is it's own markup language and allow interspersing executable
> code (and its output) in a literate, reproducable way
> (babel). Including, but not limited to, R.
>
> In addion org has export interfaces to multiple output types. For
> slideshow there are (at least):
>
>           - ox-s5
>           - ox-deck
>           - ox-reveal
>           - beamer
>
> As well as pdf, html and others.
>
> So it doesn't seem to make sense to use org as a frontend to Rstudio,
> but i may be wrong...
>

Agree on most points, and will be checking out the HTML org options as I
mentioned.

I did want to correct that slidify is not tied to rstudio, even though it
integrates nicely with it. I was playing with it when straight from an R
session within Emacs when I wrote the post.

It also has some nice web publishing features to send the presentation
right to git, dropbox, or rpubs from R, (though I didn't try that outside
of rstudio, so there could be caveats).

John

> rick
>