Getting Rmarkdown to generate custom LaTEX environment

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" <_ at 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 at 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

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2015-02-25 3:28 GMT+01:00 Huan Truong <_ at 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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