[R] Getting Rmarkdown to generate custom LaTEX environment

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear Huan,

Markdown doesn't know the concept of figure*. So you can't generate it with
native Markdown markup. If you really need figure*, then the only option in
markdown is to generate the LaTeX code yourself. Note that is will break
conversion to formats that don't handle LaTeX code.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
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2015-02-25 3:28 GMT+01:00 Huan Truong <_ op tnhh.net>:

> Hi all,
>
> I was struggling trying to make my Rmarkdown document to generate
>
> \begin{figure*}
>
> instead of
>
> \begin{figure}
>
> So that the figure spans on two columns (I'm using a custom template).
>
> in my figure. I have read the Rmarkdown Reference Guide, and searched
> for it on StackOverflow, and the general idea seems to be that I could
> somehow pass the fig.env variable to the figure, but I have tried it
> with no success: Something like this still doesn't have any effect
> whatsoever on the latex code generated:
>
> ```{r test-plot, echo=FALSE, fig.cap = "Test
> plot.\\label{fig:test-plot}", fig.env='figure*' }
> options(fig.env='figure*')
> plot(blah)
> ```
>
> I know I must have missed something but couldn't figure out what I'm
> missing after hours of struggling. Any help is much appreciated.
>
> I have a smaller problem where I want to customize the [htbp] option
> of the figure, and facing the same problem.
>
> Cheers,
> - Huan.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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