Lately, I’ve been exploring the world of R Markdown through the lens of knitting to Microsoft output formats like Word and PowerPoint. I wanted to write down what I’ve learned so far about the officedown package for making PowerPoint (PPT) slides with R Markdown. It is extremely powerful, and I’ve now referred a lot of folks to it, but it was pretty hard for me to grasp at first. These notes are a rough account of my own personal friction log for the next time I use …