{bipsdown}: BIPS themes for RMarkdown presentations

The goal of {bipsdown} is to provide easy to use RMarkdown output formats consistent with the BIPS house styles. All theme assets (LaTeX .sty, logo, fonts, CSS) are bundled in the package — no files need to be copied to your working directory.

Installation

You can install the current version of {bipsdown} from GitHub with pak or remotes:

pak::pak("bips-hb/bipsdown")

remotes::install_github("bips-hb/bipsdown")

Beamer Slides (PDF)

Use bipsdown::bips_beamer as the output format. All assets are bundled — no need to copy template files.

---
title: "Presentation Title"
subtitle: "Subtitle"
author: "Author Name"
contactauthor: "Author Name"
email: "username@leibniz-bips.de"
occasion: "Conference Name"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output:
  bipsdown::bips_beamer:
    keep_tex: false
---

Defaults

• 16:9 aspect ratio (set aspectratio: 43 for 4:3)
• Fira Sans/Mono fonts via xelatex (set themeoptions: NULL to use Helvetica with pdflatex)
• Thanks slide with contact information (set thankstext: NULL to disable)

Customization

output:
  bipsdown::bips_beamer:
    # Override defaults
    aspectratio: 43
    themeoptions:
      - fira
      - german
    thankstext: "Vielen Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit!"
    latex_engine: xelatex

Custom YAML Fields

• contactauthor: Name shown on the closing slide (defaults to first author)
• email: Email address shown on the closing slide
• occasion: Conference or event name shown on the title and closing slides

Special Frames

Custom frame commands usable via raw LaTeX:

• \sectionframe{Title}: Section divider slide (no logo, centered text)
• \thanksframe{Thank you!}: Closing slide with contact information and BIPS logo
• \begin{emptyframe}...\end{emptyframe}: Blank slide without logo or page number

Color Commands

• \blue{text} — BIPS Blue
• \orange{text} — BIPS Orange
• \green{text} — BIPS Green
• \gray{text} — BIPS Text Gray

{xaringan} Slides (HTML) (experimental)

Note

The xaringan template is experimental. Consider using the quarto extension for HTML presentations instead.

Use bipsdown::bips_xaringan as the output format:

---
title: "Presentation Title"
subtitle: "Subtitle"
author: "Author Name"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output:
  bipsdown::bips_xaringan: default
---

The format wraps xaringan::moon_reader() with BIPS defaults (16:9 ratio, Fira fonts, GitHub syntax highlighting).

Theme-Specifics

The following additional CSS classes are available:

• nologo: Hide the BIPS logo
• unnumbered: Hide the slide number

Further Reading

• {xaringan} in the RMarkdown book
• {xaringan} documentation presentation
• {xaringanExtra}

Credits & License

• The {xaringan} theme was mostly created with the help of {xaringanthemer}.
• The beamer theme was implemented by Louis Dijkstra and further adapted with a pandoc template to be used with RMarkdown.

A special thanks to Márton Marczell. I used his implementation of various styles as a guide. You can find the code here: https://bitbucket.org/marczellm/beamerports. Since Marczell's work is published under the Creative Commons License (version: CC-BY-SA), the BIPS beamer style is too.

Related

The BIPS presentation theme zoo for "I don't want to use PowerPoint" folks:

Markup format	Intermediate format	Output format	Based on	Repo / Package	Status
LaTeX	---	PDF		bips-beamer	Stable
RMarkdown	LaTeX	PDF	bips-beamer	bipsdown	Stable
RMarkdown	xaringan	HTML		bipsdown	Experimental
Quarto	LaTeX	PDF	bips-beamer	bips-quarto	Stable
Quarto	reveal.js	HTML		bips-quarto	Experimental
typst	---	PDF		bips-typst / bypst	Stable