Programmatically create interactive Powerpoint slides with R

Powerpoint is a powerful application for creating presentations, and allows you to include all sorts of text, pictures, animations and interactivity to create a compelling story. Most of the time you'll use the Powerpoint application to create slides, but if you want to include data and/or charts in your slides, in the interests of reproducibility you may want to automate the slide creation process. By using the R language with the Powerpoint API, you can recreate your slides in an instant whenever your data changes. Asif Salam has created a nice tutorial showing how to use the RDCOMClient package to...