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TikZ in R Markdown

R Markdown is a good tool for document authoring. It can use LaTeX statement in R Markdown directory. But when I try to insert a TikZ picture, I am lost about how to add preamble \usepackage{tikz} in it, so compile will fail.

Example code:

---
title: "R Markdown with tikz picture"
author: "Me"
date: "January 10, 2015"
output: beamer_presentation
---

## TikZ picture
- Here is a TikZ picutre

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) circle (2cm);
\end{tikzpicture}

Since actually it will generate a LaTeX document, so it's fine to just add it in LaTeX and then compile it to PDF but I wish I can just do it in R Markdown, then click the "Knit to PDF" button to generate PDF document directly.

Solution

  • In this post it is described how to use LaTeX packages in R Markdown. Not sure if the tikz-package works with R Markdown though.