Code in Columns in RMarkdown presentation - r

Often when I include r code in a rmarkdown pdf presentation, I want to use the space of the whole slide and therefore want to present the code and the output side-by-side.
In pure LaTex I would go for \begin{columns}...\end{columns} and then include the code/output manually using lstlistings or some other code-highlighting library. But that proves tedious if I exceed a couple of code examples.
Now I want to use RMarkdown for the presentations and would like to achieve a similar result.
However, the following code throws an error:
## This is slide 1
\begin{columns}[t]
\begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
```{r, eval=F}
plot(1:10)
```
\end{column}
\begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
```{r, echo=F}
plot(1:10)
```
\end{column}
\end{columns}
Leaving out the knitr code-chunks and replacing them with text works.
I am aware that it has something to do with the pandoc engine (see here), but wanted to ask if anybody has found a way around this issue.

Well, I may should have looked with a wider focus.
Here is a solution that works for Python, but can easily be adapted to Rmarkdown: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26069751/3048453
I ended up with this code:
in header.tex
\newcommand{\columnsbegin}{\begin{columns}}
\newcommand{\columnsend}{\end{columns}}
in presentation.Rmd
---
title: "Two-column codes in RMarkdown"
author: "My Name"
date: "February 4, 2017"
output:
beamer_presentation:
includes:
in_header: header.tex
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```
## Testslide with Columns
\columnsbegin
\column{.5\textwidth}
```{r, eval=F}
plot(mtcars[, 1:3])
```
\column{.5\textwidth}
```{r, echo=F}
plot(mtcars[, 1:3])
```
\columnsend
Which results in this

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Producing a "self contained" flextable to use in latex

I'm need to generate a "bunch" of tables in R that must be included in a Latex document.
I can create very nice tables using flextable... but I am not able to generate ANY format that can then be inserted in (multiple places) in a latex document.
The problem is that any method that I try will add extra "margins" (like in pdf... prints a table to a full page) or has some limitation (like png).
Does any ne has a solution, either using directly an RScript or trough knitting R-Markdown?
(Note: The solution of producing the whole latex doc in RMarkdown is Not feasible.)
Just to present an example. I would like this would produce a Full-Page (with dimensions of the table... not A4) of the table.
Thank you very much for your Help :).
---
title: "Untitled"
output:
pdf_document:
latex_engine: xelatex
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(flextable)
```
```{r}
ft <- flextable(head(airquality))
ft <- autofit(ft)
theme_vader(ft)
```
You could use the standalone class (a bit of extra space is still there, but much less than a full page):
---
documentclass: standalone
classoption: varwidth
output:
pdf_document:
latex_engine: xelatex
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
library(flextable)
```
```{r}
ft <- flextable(head(airquality))
ft <- autofit(ft)
theme_vader(ft)
```

How can I automate different spacing between text and code blocks in R Markdown?

Consider the following R Markdown document:
---
title: "Stack Overflow Question"
author: "duckmayr"
date: "6/21/2019"
output: pdf_document
header-includes:
- \usepackage{setspace}
- \doublespacing
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```
Here is some example text.
I want all the body text to be double-spaced,
but I want all echoed code from code chunks to be single spaced.
In other words, not this:
```{r}
## This code is double-spaced.
## I want it to be single spaced.
## How can I do that?
```
Is there a canned or relatively painless way to have all normal text double-spaced, but have all code echoed from code chunks single spaced? I tried consulting the guide to chunk options here, but couldn't quite find what I was looking for.
If you are outputting to pdf the most painless way might be adding some LaTeX commands to your Rmd document:
---
title: "Stack Overflow Question"
author: "duckmayr"
date: "6/21/2019"
output: pdf_document
header-includes:
- \usepackage{setspace}
- \doublespacing
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```
Here is some example text. I want all the body text to be double-spaced, but I
want all echoed code from code chunks to be single spaced. In other words, not
this:
\singlespacing
```{r}
## This code is double-spaced.
## I want it to be single spaced.
## How can I do that?
```
\doublespacing
Some additional body text. Nor hence hoped her after other known defer his.
For county now sister engage had season better had waited. Occasional mrs
interested far expression acceptance. Day either mrs talent pulled men
rather regret admire but. Life ye sake it shed. Five lady he cold in meet up.
Alternatively, you could define a new chunk option using knitr chunk hooks. For instance, you could include in the setup chunk:
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
hook_chunk = knitr::knit_hooks$get('chunk')
knitr::knit_hooks$set(chunk = function(x, options) {
regular_output = hook_chunk(x, options)
# add latex commands if chunk option singlespacing is TRUE
if (isTRUE(options$singlespacing))
sprintf("\\singlespacing\n %s \n\\doublespacing", regular_output)
else
regular_output
})
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, singlespacing = TRUE)
```
Some useful references:
Hooks - Customizable functions to run before/after a code chunk, tweak the output, and manipulate chunk options
How to Create New Chunk Options in R Markdown

Wrapping figures generated in a knitr chunk when knitting to pdf

In a .Rmd document, I am generating multiple related figures (from a list) in a knitr chunk.
When knitting to html, those figures are wrapped properly and all visible.
When knitting to pdf, the figures are all one after the other and only the first two are visible (and half of the third). Here is some code that reproduces the issue:
---
title: "Example figure wrapping problem"
output:
pdf_document:
keep_tex: true
classoption:
landscape
---
# SK-N-SH plex panel {.tabset .tabset-fade}
```{r, echo=FALSE, message=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(fig.width=6, fig.height=9, fig.show="hold", hightligh=TRUE, warnings=TRUE, error=FALSE, cache=FALSE, echo=FALSE, dpi=100)
```
```{r}
for (ii in 1:6) {
plot(1:3, 1:3, main=ii)
}
```
I figured that the problem comes from the generation of the .tex file, which contains this line:
\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-1.png}\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-2.png}\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-3.png}\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-4.png}\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-5.png}\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-6.png}
Adding line breaks every two includegraphics solves the problems:
\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-1.png}\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-2.png}
\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-3.png}\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-4.png}
\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-5.png}\includegraphics{figure/unnamed-chunk-2-6.png}
However it is obviously not practical as there are many more figures. I could also run sed 's/}\(\\includegraphics\)/}\r\1/g' on the file but it feels like uselessly complicating the compiling process.
Is there a native knitr or rmarkdown way to solve my problem.
If you specify fig.align="center" and fig.show="asis" in the code chunk it seems to work. For example
---
title: "Example figure wrapping problem"
output:
pdf_document:
keep_tex: true
classoption:
landscape
---
# SK-N-SH plex panel {.tabset .tabset-fade}
```{r, echo=FALSE, message=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(fig.width=6, fig.height=9, fig.show="hold", hightligh=TRUE, warnings=TRUE, error=FALSE, cache=FALSE, echo=FALSE, dpi=100)
```
```{r fig.align="center",fig.show="asis"}
for (ii in 1:6) {
plot(1:3, 1:3, main=ii)
}
```
looks fine. It generates LaTeX code
\begin{center}\includegraphics{Untitled_files/figure-latex/unnamed-chunk-2-1} \end{center}
\begin{center}\includegraphics{Untitled_files/figure-latex/unnamed-chunk-2-2} \end{center}
etc.
which breaks up the figures. You can use fig.align="right" or fig.align="left" instead, but it's essential that you don't use fig.show="hold", or all the figures are wrapped together, and you return to the original problem.

output markdown in r code chunk

I have a R markdown file that I want to output rmarkdown from the script itself. For example, I would have the following simple code in an Rmd file.
---
title: "test"
author: "johndoe"
date: "September 5, 2015"
output: html_document
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```
```{r cars}
paste("## This is a Heading in Code")
summary(cars)
```
I want "This is a Heading in Code" to render in rmarkdown. There is a solution in an R script to generate markdown as per http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/r_notebook_format.html. But I am trying to figure out how to do this in a Rmarkdown file. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Why build the header markup (either in markdown or HTML) manually? Try inline R expressions or some helper functions in pander (to generate markdown programatically):
---
title: "test"
author: "johndoe"
date: "September 5, 2015"
output: html_document
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```
## `r 'This is a Heading in Code'`
```{r title, results='asis'}
library(pander)
pandoc.header("This is a Heading in Code", level = 2)
```
```{r cars, results='asis'}
summary(cars)
```
I searched for a good answer for this for some time after using cat("## Heading") inside results='asis' code chucks. I have seen many people dissatisfied by the results='asis' setting in the code chunk because it sets all results of the code chunk to not be wrapped in a code markup block. We have many cases when we want to output the heading along with results that should be wrapped in markup (e.g. a kable table that renders to a html table).
Here is the solution I found by simply specifying the "asis" attribute to the text object with knitr::asis_output and keeping the code chunk in the default 'markup' setting.
---
title: "test"
author: "johndoe"
date: "September 5, 2015"
output: html_document
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```
```{r cars}
knitr::asis_output("## This is a Heading in Code")
summary(cars)
knitr::kable(summary(cars))
```
Unfortunately, at the current time knitr::asis_output only works in top-level R expressions, and it will not work when it is called inside another expression, such as a for-loop.

knitr plots, labels, and captions within one chunk - .Rmd files

Jallen produced a solution for producing knitr plots, labels, and captions within one chunk - for Rnw files.
knitr plots, labels, and captions within one chunk
This works nicely for .Rnw but I can't make it work for .Rmd, don't see what is going wrong...
---
output:
pdf_document:
fig_caption: yes
fig_crop: no
---
```{r startup,echo=FALSE,results='hide',message=FALSE,tidy=FALSE,warning=FALSE,fig.keep='all',comment=NA}
require(knitr)
require(ggplot2)
opts_knit$set(progress = F, verbose = F)
opts_chunk$set(comment=NA,
tidy=FALSE,
warning=FALSE,
message=FALSE,
echo=FALSE,
dpi=600,
fig.width=6.75, fig.height=4, # Default figure widths
dev=c("pdf",'tiff'),
dev.args=list(pdf=list(NULL),tiff=list(compression='lzw')),
error=FALSE)
```
```{r plotloop,results='asis'}
for(x in seq(1,20)){
x1<-data.frame(x=seq(1,10),y=seq(1,10))
plt<-ggplot(data=x1,aes(x,y))+geom_point()
figLabel=paste('Figure',x,sep='')
capt<-paste('Caption for fig.',x)
cat(knit(text=(paste("```{r ",figLabel,",fig.pos='h',fig.cap='",capt,"'}\nplt\n```",sep=''))))
cat('\\newpage')
plot.knit function in knitr plots, labels, and captions within one chunk can be modified to account for the syntax of markdown as opposed to latex. plot.knit.md becomes
plot.knit.md<-function(chunkLabel,#text for chunk label which is also used for figure file name
capt,#text for caption
plt,
...)
{
cat(knit(text=knit_expand(text="```{r, {{chunkLabel}},eval=TRUE,fig.cap='{{capt}}',echo=FALSE}\nplt\n```"),
quiet=TRUE))
}
This works in the following markdown doc.
---
title: "plot.knit.md demo"
author: "Joel Allen"
date: "04/23/2015"
output:
html_document: default
pdf_document:
fig_caption: yes
---
This is an R Markdown document to demonstrate the generation of self-contained code chunks in a markdown file. It is particularly useful for situations where multiple plots are generated in a single code chunk allowing for dynamic label and caption support.
This example draws on
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21685885/knitr-plots-labels-and-captions-within-one-chunk
in response to
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27443019/knitr-plots-labels-and-captions-within-one-chunk-rmd-files
Items to note:
#. output pdf_document fig_caption option must be set to yes
#. plot.knit has been modified to plot.knit.md to account for the different syntax needed.
```{r, echo=FALSE,results='asis'}
plot.knit.md<-function(chunkLabel,#text for chunk label which is also used for figure file name
capt,#text for caption
plt,
...)
{
cat(knit(text=knit_expand(text="```{r, {{chunkLabel}},eval=TRUE,fig.cap='{{capt}}',echo=FALSE}\nplt\n```"),
quiet=TRUE))
}
require(ggplot2)
cars.p<-ggplot(cars,aes(x=speed,y=dist))+
geom_point()
plot.knit.md(chunkLabel="carsPlot",capt="this is a caption for the cars plot",plt=cars.p)
```
One thing to figure out though is the attachment of labels...

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