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" <_...@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.onkel...@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 > > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature > and > > Forest > > team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance > > Kliniekstraat 25 > > 1070 Anderlecht > > Belgium > > > > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more > than > > asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say > what > > the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher > > The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner > > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not > > ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of > data. > > ~ John Tukey > > > > 2015-02-25 3:28 GMT+01:00 Huan Truong <_...@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. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Eccentric Graduate Student > >> Google Talk/Jabber hu...@tnhh.net - Website tnhh.net - Phone > >> 1-858-848-ROFL > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > -- > > Eccentric Graduate Student > Google Talk/Jabber hu...@tnhh.net - Website tnhh.net - Phone > 1-858-848-ROFL > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.