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Jespar
Jespar

Reputation: 1026

Embed graphics within text in Shiny R

I want to embed a small image within the text I am writing on a Shiny html document.

I've looked around and I found this command \inlinegraphics{image.jpg} that works in Latex. I know that to incorporate latex code in Shiny I need to include the relevant latex packages:

title: "Random document"
author: "My name"
date: "2 November 2017"
header-includes:
- \usepackage{graphicx,calc}
output: html_document
runtime: shiny

Apparently, this trick doesn't work. Any suggestions please?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 463

Answers (1)

Cedric
Cedric

Reputation: 2474

One way to do this will be to create at .Rnw document as following

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,calc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\newcommand*{\inlinegraphics}[1]{%
    \raisebox{-0.3\baselineskip}{%
        \includegraphics[
        height=\baselineskip,
        width=\baselineskip,
        keepaspectratio,
        ]{#1}%
    }%
}
\begin{document}

The following will produce  \inlinegraphics{images/fish.png} an image that is
within text 

\end{document}

Following your suggestion, I've adapted this inline tex image post. It works fine and produces the following pdf.

inline figure

However, you can't use pandoc to convert this to html (the image is dropped), and you only get the following (with no image).

<p>The following will produce <span> </span> an image that is within text</p>

Which is not so surprising since pandoc only converts a part of Latex. See tex to html post

So from what I understand, you simply want to embed directly in html. The following code is in a .Rmd YAML document.

--- 
title: "Random document" 
author: "My name" 
date: "2 November 2017"
output: html_document 
runtime: shiny
--- 

<p>
This is an image that I want displayed inline
<img src="images/fish.png" width="20" height="20" >
inside the text
</p>

Inline figure html You might want to look at this post embed image html for further details.

Upvotes: 1

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