How can this be done in Markdown?
I am using the beamer presentation in Rmarkdown, and I want an image on the left side of a slide and text on the right side of a slide.
Basically, what this does: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/165475/figure-next-to-text-in-beamer
But for Markdown not latex.
You can do it in Pandoc's way! Refer to the manual for more information.
---
output: beamer_presentation
---
:::: {.columns}
::: {.column width="60%"}
:::
::: {.column width="40%"}
["Funny giraffe looking at the side"](https://www.flickr.com/photos/8070463@N03/9594476129) by [Tambako the Jaguar](https://www.flickr.com/photos/8070463@N03) is licensed under [CC BY-ND 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&atype=rich)
:::
::::
I would not use the multicol package with beamer, beamer has its own mechanism for columns:
---
output:
beamer_presentation:
theme: "CambridgeUS"
keep_tex: true
---
# test
\begin{columns}[onlytextwidth,T]
\begin{column}{.45\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-duck}
\end{column}
\begin{column}{.45\linewidth}
test
\end{column}
\end{columns}
