Incremental sub-bullets in RMarkdown and Beamer

Question

I write slides in RMarkdown and compile them into Beamer presentations. I want to incrementally reveal bullets and subbullets on slides. Below is a .Rmd file showing some of my failed attempts. In these attempts, I insert 4 spaces before the subbullet lines. I want to control the incrementing on a slide-by-slide (or even list-by-list) basis.

---
title: "My Title"
author: "RTM"
output: beamer_presentation
---

## This works, incremental bullets

>- Bullet 1
>- Bullet 2

## This nests, but does not increment

- Bullet 1
- Bullet 2
    + subbullet 1
    + subbullet 2

## This increments, but fails to nest

>- Bullet 1
>- Bullet 2
>    - subbullet 1
>    - subbullet 2

## This increments, but fails to nest

>- Bullet 1
>- Bullet 2
>    + subbullet 1
>    + subbullet 2

## This increments, but fails to nest

>- Bullet 1
>- Bullet 2
    + subbullet 1
    + subbullet 2

## This increments, but fails to nest and ignores subbullet status

>- Bullet 1
>- Bullet 2
    >+ subbullet 1
    >+ subbullet 2

Picofarad

which is your pandoc version? – Alroy

it works for me with pandoc 2.0.5. – Alroy

@romles I am using pandoc version 1.19.2.1, bundled with the current version of RStudio. When you say "it works" for you, which of my snippets above renders correctly? Thanks for your help! – Picofarad

(That's RStudio version 1.1.442.) – Picofarad

the first two but fails to nest – Alroy

Thanks, @romles. This works using pandoc 2.1.3. – Picofarad

Answer 1

This problem is solved by updating pandoc. This works using pandoc 2.1.3

I updated my pandoc at the Terminal with brew install pandoc, which threw an error suggesting I run brew link --overwrite pandoc. I did so, and my pandoc version was updated. I recompile the .Rmd file and the first two but fails to nest cases increment and nest.

Picofarad

Answer 2

Kumar's answer at Incremental nested lists in rmarkdown is useful and shows how to increment and nest by adding an extra space at the bullet level.

I am not sure how to create slides where the nested bullets appear at the same time as the bullet under which they are nested.

Untold

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