Current versions of pandoc (i.e., pandoc 2.0 and later) supports fenced divs. Specially named divs are transformed into columns when targeting a slides format: # This slide has columns ::: columns :::: column left :::: :::: column right :::: ::: Pandoc translates this into the following LaTeX beamer code: \begin{frame}{This slide has columns} \protect\hypertarget{this-slide-has-columns}{} \begin{columns}[T] … Read more
With the latest version of pandoc (1.12.2), you can do this: pandoc -f html+tex_math_dollars+tex_math_single_backslash -t latex Much nicer! If you don’t want to convert math delimited by \( and \), just do pandoc -f html+tex_math_dollars -t latex
Updated Answer (10 Feb 2013) rmarkdown package: There is now an rmarkdown package available on github that interfaces with Pandoc. It includes a render function. The documentation makes it pretty clear how to convert rmarkdown to pdf among a range of other formats. This includes including output formats in the rmarkdown file or running supplying … Read more
Recent versions of rmarkdown and pandoc In more recent versions of rmarkdown, the settings of margins can be done in the YAML header via the top-level element geometry. What you specify in the geometry tag will be piped into the LaTeX template that ships with Pandoc via the following LaTeX snippet $if(geometry)$ \usepackage[$for(geometry)$$geometry$$sep$,$endfor$]{geometry} $endif$ For … Read more
Go into RStudio and find the system environment variable for RSTUDIO_PANDOC Sys.getenv(“RSTUDIO_PANDOC”) Then put that in your R script prior to calling the render command. Sys.setenv(RSTUDIO_PANDOC=”— insert directory here —“) This worked for me after I’d been struggling to find how rmarkdown finds pandoc. I had to check github to look at the source.
There are multiple solutions to your problem, I’ll let you choose the one that suits you best. They are presented below, from the cleanest to the ugliest (in my opinion and regarding the best practices generally followed). 1. Make it a service If you end up calling it often, it may be worth exposing pandoc … Read more
The question is old, but still receives a lot of attention. As the existing answers are outdated, here a more up-to-date solution: Resizing local images As of knitr 1.12, there is the function include_graphics. From ?include_graphics (emphasis mine): The major advantage of using this function is that it is portable in the sense that it … Read more
August, 2018 update: This answer was written before the advent of bookdown, which is a more powerful approach to writing Rmarkdown based books. Check out the minimal bookdown example in @Mikey-Harper’s answer! When I want to break a large report into separate Rmd, I usually create a parent Rmd and include the chapters as children. … Read more
I present an alternative solution. Instead of inserting [H] symbols into a latex document in a post-hoc manner, I suggest redefining the figure environment to ignore any position arguments and use [H]. To do this, create a .tex file in the same directory as the .Rmd file which redefines the figure environment, and update the … Read more