2 column Section in R Markdown

Question

I\'m very new at R Markdown and I\'m putting together an R Markdown HTML page for some new R users at my work to give them an intro and walk them through some simple demos.

Answer 1

If you are exporting to pdf you can do this in the header with includes.

Without using css files I have created a two-column environment using the following.

1st: I created the file header.tex. header.tex includes the following statements:

\usepackage{multicol}
\newcommand{\btwocol}{\begin{multicols}{2}}
\newcommand{\etwocol}{\end{multicols}}

2nd: I put the following command into my document header

---
title: "My title"
author: "My name"
date: "Today"
output:
    beamer_presentation:
        highlight: haddock
    includes:
        in_header: header.tex
        keep_tex: yes
---

Here is an example of the body and a picture of the output with two columns.

***********
\btwocol
```{r, results="asis"}
print("test")
```

Here is some text that also is in two column environment.
\etwocol

Now only one column

And here is what the slide looks like: