[R] Can someone please have a look at this query on stackoverflow?

[Ashim Kapoor]

Dear Olivier,

Many thanks for your reply.

This works well for me.

How did you come up with the pagewidth / pageheight numbers?  I do
understand that their ratio = 16:9,
but how did you choose these numbers?

Best Regards,
Ashim

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 9:25 PM Olivier Crouzet
<olivier.crouzet using univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
>
> Dear Ashim,
>
> I don't think the aspectratio is appropriate in this context because
> it would imply that the beamer (LaTeX) class is used but you're actually
> using the article (LaTeX) class.
>
> You may use specifications of the geometry package rather than
> specifying options to the class:
>
> e.g. replace your current header:
>
> ---
> title: "Testing landscape and aspect ratio"
> output:
>   pdf_document:
>     number_sections: true
> classoption:
>   - landscape
>   - "aspectratio=169"
> header-includes:
>    - \usepackage{dcolumn}
> documentclass: article
> geometry: margin=1.5cm
> ---
>
> with this one:
>
> ---
> title: "Testing landscape and aspect ratio"
> output:
>   pdf_document:
>     number_sections: true
> header-includes:
>    - \usepackage{dcolumn}
> documentclass: article
> geometry: margin=1.5cm, paperwidth=24cm, paperheight=13.5cm
> ---
>
> Of course, you may change the exact dimensions and it will impact the
> relative font sizes. I've tested it and it generates what you want.
>
> Yours.
> Olivier.
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:03:23
> +0530 Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have posted a query which has received a response but that is not
> > working on my computer.
> >
> > Here is the query:
> >
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77387434/pdf-from-rmarkdown-landscape-and-aspectratio-169
> >
> > Can someone please help me ?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Ashim
> >
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