Repeated slides in beamer

Question

I have about 200 JPEG files that I need to include in a PDF document, one JPEG per page (i.e. 200 pages + intro slide). The following code successfully does this with one JPEG.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{graphics}

\title{Overview of Jpegs}
\subtitle{Example}
\author{Chris}
\institute{Office}
\date{February 02, 2012}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Slide with jpeg number 1}.
\includegraphics[height=8cm]{File_1.jpg}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The JPEGs are named File_1.jpg, File_2.jpg, and so on.

I suppose a for-loop would be in place, but no matter how I try, I can't get it to work.

I created the JPEGs in RStudio (programming in R), but maybe this is more a pure LaTeX-question. I prefer to use JPEG as they are smaller than other formats.

Answer 1

How about using a chunk with <<results=tex, echo=FALSE>>=?

It will allow you to: (a) paste together the LaTeX code you'd like to run (i.e. 200 \begin{frame} ... \includegraphics ... \end{frame} constructs); and (b) place that constructed text verbatim in the *.tex file produced by Sweave(). For more details, see here. It's a FAQ!

<<results=tex,echo=FALSE>>=  
for(i in 1:200){  
    file <- paste("File_", i, ".jpg", sep="")
    cat("\\begin{frame}{Slide with jpeg number ", i, "}.\n", sep="")
    cat("\\includegraphics[height=8cm]{", file, "}\n", sep="")  
    cat("\\end{frame}\n\n")
}  
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Answer 2

The pgffor package allows for-loop style repetition using the following format:

\foreach \<cmd> in {1,...,<total>} {%
  % stuff
}

Using this as base, the following is probably what you're after:

\documentclass{beamer}% http://ctan.org/pkg/beamer
\usepackage{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\usepackage{pgffor}% http://ctan.org/pkg/pgffor

\title{Overview of Jpegs}
\subtitle{Example}
\author{Chris}
\institute{Office}
\date{February 02, 2012}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}

\foreach \n in {1,...,200} {%
  \begin{frame}{Slide with jpeg number \n}
    \includegraphics[height=8cm]{File_\n.jpg}
  \end{frame}%
}

\end{document}