Add speaker notes to beamer presentations using RMarkdown

Question

I want to create a beamer pdf presentation from a RMarkdown file. I would like to add speaker notes to some slides and set options for these notes (to be printed or not when you print the presentation).

These speaker notes typically show on the speaker's computer when he is presenting on a screen but never show on the slides.

Is that possible? How can I do that?

Answer 1

I was wondering how to do this when using a pptx output. This is how:

::: notes
This is a speaker note.

- Use basic Markdown
- like this list
- *and inline formatting*
:::

Reproduced from here.