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Setting page duration in R Markdown presentations

I need to create an auto advancing presentation for a lightning talk. Is there a way to use the \hypersetup{pdfpageduration=n} functionality from Beamer within R Markdown without editing the intermediate .tex file? If possible, I would like to be able to set a different time for each slide. I'm open to solutions that use the html presentation engines (ioslides or Slidy) if this is an easier alternative.

Solution

  • You can set the duration on each slide separately by using \transduration{<seconds>}:

    ---
output: 
  beamer_presentation:
    keep_tex: true
---

# slide 1
\transduration{0.5}


# slide 2
\transduration{0.1}