'R' 'Markdown' Themes for 'UIUC' Documents and Presentations

A set of custom 'R' 'Markdown' templates for documents and presentations with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) color scheme and identity standards.

The uiucthemes package includes a collection of UIUC-themed templates for presentations, journal articles, and exam templates.

Included in the package are:

• beamer_illinois: Illinois colored header boxes
• beamer_orange: Minimialist slides with a color preference to orange.
• beamer_mil: Beamer Market Information Lab (MIL)
• latex_journal_report: initial implementation of a journal entry for a class.

Screenshots of each template are included in package overview vignette.

beamer_illinois - Example

Within an RMarkdown file, add the following:

---
title: '"Illinois" UIUC Beamer Theme'
short-title: "Beamer Slides"
author: "John and Mary Doe"
short-author: "J & M Doe"
date: 'October 03, 2018'      # Month DD, YYYY (Main Slide)
short-date: '10/03/2018' # MM/DD/YYYY (Lower Right)
institute: "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"
short-institute: "UIUC"
department: "Department of Magic"                # Institute must be defined
license: "Did you license this slide deck? "
section-titles: false                            # Provides slide headings
safe-columns: true                               # Enables special latex macros for columns.
output: 
   uiucthemes::beamer_illinois
---
 
# Section title     
## Subsection title 
 
### Frame Title
 
Frame content 
 
**Unordered List**
 
- [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)](http://illinois.edu)
- [Department of Statistics](http://www.stat.illinois.edu/)
- [Illinois Informatics Institute](http://www.informatics.illinois.edu/)
 
*Ordered List*
 
1. <http://thecoatlessprofessor.com>
2. <https://github.com/coatless>
 
 
#### Title for block box
 
Content inside of a box 
 
### \LaTeX
 
\begin{exampleblock}{Binomial Theorem}
\begin{equation} 
  f\left(k\right) = \binom{n}{k} p^k\left(1-p\right)^{n-k}
  \label{eq:binom}
\end{equation} 
\end{exampleblock}
 
Hello Equation \ref{eq:binom}

This generates:

Materials Referenced

• Custom Document Templates / Custom Formats
• Beamer Presentation Format
• Beamer Pandoc Template
• rticles An R Package

Prerequisites

• LaTeX Distribution
  • Windows: http://miktex.org/download
  • Mac: http://tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html

Using uiucthemes from RStudio

To use uiucthemes from RStudio:

1. Install the latest RStudio.

2. Install the uiucthemes package:

install.packages(c("rmarkdown","uiucthemes"))

1. Use the New R Markdown dialog to create an article from one of the templates:

Using uiucthemes outside of RStudio

1. Install pandoc using the instructions for your platform.

2. Install the rmarkdown and uiucthemes packages:

install.packages(c("rmarkdown","uiucthemes"))

1. Use the rmarkdown::draft function to create articles:

rmarkdown::draft("slide_deck.Rmd", template = "beamer_illinois", package = "uiucthemes")

Using a development version of uiucthemes

To access the development version of uiucthemes, e.g. not on CRAN, please use:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("coatless/uiucthemes")