LaTeX wrapfigure in RMarkdown

Question

I am attempting to use rmarkdown to generate a PDF via LaTeX. I am trying to insert a picture into the PDF, using LaTeX commands withing the RMarkdown document. I am using the LaTeX command wrapfigure which is inserting the figure properly, but then forces text following the current section into a more narrow column, as shown here.

My PDF looks like:

text text text [image]

text text text

text text text

I want:

text text text [image]

text text text text text

text text text text text

The solution to that problem involved using a full LaTeX document, but I am required to use RMarkdown for my class, so that solution will not work for me. How to I get the proper full line formatting that I want, utilizing RMarkdown?

Code Example:

---
title: "Really Awesome Title"
author: "Some Guy"
date: "June 30, 2017"
output:
  pdf_document: default
urlcolor: blue
header-includes:
   - \usepackage{wrapfig}
---

\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{.25\textwidth}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{Dave_roberts.png}
  \end{center}
  \caption{Dave Roberts}
\end{wrapfigure}

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UPDATE: A friend suggested that I needed to end the section of LaTeX code with a {R}. This made the margin error stop occurring, but it added the text "{R}" to my PDF.

Code now looks like:

\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{.25\textwidth}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{Dave_roberts.png}
  \end{center}
  \caption{Dave Roberts}
\end{wrapfigure}{R}

So, it appears to be a problem with ending the LaTeX call. Does anyone have an idea how to end the LaTeX call but not add text to the PDF?

Answer 1

Your problem comes from the position of your \end{center} argument which should come after the caption. Also wrapfigure will reserve the space arround your figure and make it fit in the available space, so the additional [width=.2\textwidth] is not necessary but that was not creating your problem.

Here is a working example

---
title : "test title"
author: "Some Guy" 
date: "June 30, 2017" 
output:  pdf_document
urlcolor: blue 
header-includes: 
   - \usepackage{wrapfig}
---

```{r echo = FALSE}
url <- "https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/11/15/20/27/diamonds-2952447_960_720.png"
curl::curl_download(url, "image.png")
``` 

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\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{.25\textwidth}  
 \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{image.png}  
  \caption{Diamonds} 
\end{center}
\end{wrapfigure}

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