[R] Getting Rmarkdown to generate custom LaTEX environment

[Thierry Onkelinx]

This has nothing to do with *r*markdown but with the markdown language
itself. Markdown has the concept of a figure caption. Hence fig.cap in
Rmarkdown can work.
Op 25 feb. 2015 18:42 schreef "Huan Truong" <_ op tnhh.net>:

> Hi Thierry,
>
> Thanks for the quick and informative answer. I understand that
> rmarkdown doesn't know the concept of figure*. However, I wonder why
> it knows that I could pass fig.cap fine, but not fig.env? Where in the
> code of rmarkdown does it take care of that fig.cap handling, so I can
> patch it to make it understand fig.env?
>
> - Huan.
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Thierry Onkelinx
> <thierry.onkelinx op inbo.be> wrote:
> > 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
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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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