removing Figure text in rmarkdown

Question

When I insert an image in Rmarkdown I see "Figure #:" below the image.

How do you get rid of the "Figure:" text?

for example here is my code

![my caption](C:/mypath/myimage.png)

and the image appear with "Figure 1: my caption" below it. I just want the caption to the "my caption"

I looked here http://yihui.name/knitr/options/#chunk_options and fig.lp seems like it might be a solution but when I include that in the header like:

---
title: "My Title"
output: pdf_document
fig.lp: ('';character)
---

the "Figure :" still shows up.

Thank you.

Answer 1

All you have to do is add a backslash to the end of the line:

![my caption](C:/mypath/myimage.png)\

Answer 2

You can use the fig_caption option in the header, like so:

---
title: "My Title"
output: 
  pdf_document:
    fig_caption: false
---