Caption above figure using knitr (LaTeX/PDF)

Question

I would like to place the caption above the figure using knitr in texmaker. I know that this question has already been asked, and I understand that the solution suggested so far is to use:

\begin{figure} 
\caption{This is a caption above the figure} 
<<a-plot, echo=FALSE>>= 
plot(1) 
@ 
\end{figure} 

But in this way I cannot show the code (since echo=FALSE). And if I choose instead echo=TRUE, what I get is the caption, then the codes, and then the graph, which is also not what I want. What I would like to show is the code for R, (and) the graph plotted with that R code, with the caption above the graph.

Answer 1

Try using hook:

<<include=FALSE>>=
f <- function(x, options) {
  paste("\\end{kframe}\n", 
        "\\caption{", options$capT, "}\n", 
        hook_plot_tex(x, options), 
        "\n\\begin{kframe}", sep = "")
}
knit_hooks$set(plot = f)
@

\begin{figure} 
<<a-plot, echo=TRUE, capT="cap, cap, and cap">>= 
plot(1) 
@ 
\end{figure}