Increasing width of figures

[seananderson]

Question from MS Teams:

I noticed there is preset specifications in the index for figures. Is there a way to increase the height or width of individual figures? I did try fig.width/fig.height, but it didn't work...

[seananderson]

You want out.width. E.g. out.width = "6in" or "\\textwidth". All the options: https://yihui.org/knitr/options/

fig.width controls the 'device' size when the plot is created but not the size on the PDF page. I.e. larger fig.width will make for smaller text and features on the plot given the same out.width.

You can also change the default output width in the index.Rmd file with knitr::opts_chunk$set() . E.g.

csasdown/inst/rmarkdown/templates/resdoc/skeleton/skeleton.Rmd

Line 112 in 8d15684

out.width = fig_out_width,