Figure position in markdown when converting to PDF with knitr and pandoc
I present an alternative solution. Instead of inserting [H] symbols into a latex document in a post-hoc manner, I suggest redefining the figure environment to ignore any position arguments and use [H].
To do this, create a .tex file in the same directory as the .Rmd file which redefines the figure environment, and update the YAML header in the .Rmd to include the file during compilation.
Here is an example of a .tex file:
\usepackage{float}
\let\origfigure\figure
\let\endorigfigure\endfigure
\renewenvironment{figure}[1][2] {
\expandafter\origfigure\expandafter[H]
} {
\endorigfigure
}
Here is example .Rmd which includes it (assuming you called the .tex file 'preamble-latex.tex'):
---
title: "example"
author: "you"
date: "`r format(Sys.time(), '%d %B %Y')`"
output:
rmarkdown::pdf_document:
fig_caption: yes
includes:
in_header: preamble-latex.tex
---
```{r, fig.cap='Markdownvellous!'}
plot(1:10, 1:10)
```
I'm not aware of such an option for pandoc to set the floating option of figures when converting a Markdown document to LaTeX. If you choose Markdown for its simplicity, you should not expect too much power from it, even with powerful tools like pandoc. Bottom line: Markdown is not LaTeX. It was designed for HTML instead of LaTeX.
Two ways to go:
use the Rnw syntax (R + LaTeX) instead of Rmd (R Markdown) (examples); then you will be able to use the chunk option
fig.pos='H'after you\usepackage{float}in the preamble; in this case, you have full power of LaTeX, and pandoc will not be involved-
hack at the LaTeX document generated by pandoc, e.g. something like
library(knitr) knit('foo.Rmd') # gives foo.md pandoc('foo.md', format='latex') # gives foo.tex x = readLines('foo.tex') # insert the float package x = sub('(\\\\begin\\{document\\})', '\\\\usepackage{float}\n\\1', x) # add the H option for all figures x = gsub('(\\\\begin\\{figure\\})', '\\1[H]', x) # write the processed tex file back writeLines(x, 'foo.tex') # compile to pdf tools::texi2pdf('foo.tex') # gives foo.pdf
If you do not like these solutions, consider requesting a new feature to pandoc on Github, then sit back and wait.
I am using KnitR and markdown in RSTUDIO, the solution for my case is adding in the preamble \usepackage{float}:
---
title: "Proyect 2"
author: "FV"
date: "2016-12-3"
output:
pdf_document:
fig_caption: yes
fig_crop: no
fig_height: 2
fig_width: 3
highlight: haddock
keep_tex: yes
number_sections: yes
toc: yes
toc_depth: 2
html_document:
fig_caption: yes
theme: journal
toc: yes
toc_depth: 2
header-includes:
- \usepackage{graphicx}
- \usepackage{float}
---
And then adding this lines of code (fig.pos='H') in the very first lines:
```{r echo=FALSE,warning=FALSE}
library(knitr)
opts_chunk$set(fig.path='figure/graphics-',
cache.path='cache/graphics-',
fig.align='center',
external=TRUE,
echo=TRUE,
warning=FALSE,
fig.pos='H'
)
a4width<- 8.3
a4height<- 11.7
```
If what you are looking for is to just control manually where to put your figures, using this webpage: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ag978/litdata/figs/, I found that if you add one backslash "\" somewhere after your plot commands, the plots will not be floating but instead will be printed in their current location.
If you want only some plots to appear, you can modify that option for each.
In your example:
# My report
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
# set global chunk options
knitr::opts_chunk$set(cache=FALSE)
library(ggplot2)
```
Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some textSome text Some text Some text
```{r, echo=FALSE, fig.height=3}
ggplot(mtcars, aes(disp, hp)) + geom_point()
```
\
Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some text Some textSome text Some text Some text
(etc)