How to increase distance between bullet points in R Markdown?

Question

I'm trying to increase the distance between bullet points in R Markdown unsuccessfully. I've tried enumitem and a few other changes with no success.

Here is a workable code:

---
title: "Title"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
author: "Author"
output: beamer_presentation
---

## Slide 1

- Bullet point 1
- Bullet point 2

And you should get this:

The idea is to increase the space between Bullet point 1 and Bullet point 2.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

For ordinary beamer documents one can increase the space between items with

\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchcmd{\itemize}
  {\def\makelabel}
  {\setlength{\itemsep}{5ex}\def\makelabel}
  {}
  {}

rmarkdown uses beamer in a very strange way, but it can be hacked like this:

---
title: "Title"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
author: "Author"
output:
  beamer_presentation:
    keep_tex: true
header-includes:
  - \renewcommand{\tightlist}{\setlength{\itemsep}{5ex}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}}
---

## Slide 1

- Bullet point 1
- Bullet point 2