Xaringan: Match page number and URL nav number on slides

[angela-li]

Is there a way to force the URL nav number "myxaringan.html#35" to be the same as the page number displayed on the slide? I'm interested in typing "myxaringan.html#35" and being taken to the 35th slide (currently it does not do this). This would help with navigating a long xaringan presentation, which I've found can be tricky. I think it's also strange in terms of user interface to have the URL "myxaringan.html#35" take you to page 17 or something, if you have a lot of transitions, etc.

I asked this question on RStudio Community (more details about some ideas I have there) and am happy to update my answer based on your feedback here!

Thank you for all your work on this package, it's made including R code in presentations a breeze!

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[gadenbuie]

Yes! There is an option countIncrementalSlides that when TRUE each new slide is counted individually, regardless of whether or not it is incremental.

For the exact same reason as you, I always set this in the YAML header for my xaringan slides:

output:
  xaringan::moon_reader:
    nature:
      countIncrementalSlides: true
      slideNumberFormat: "%current%"

I also usually add the slideNumberFormat: "%current%" to make sure that only the current slide number is shown to avoid audience anxiety when they see Slide 10 of 130.

[pat-s]

Interesting. Could this be a candidate for a change of the current default?