Insert a logo in upper right corner of R markdown pdf document

Question

I am getting started with R markdown and I would like to create a new report having our company image logo.png in the upper right corner of each page.

Is there a way to code this in the YAML section or need this to be done in a R chunk section?

Answer 1

You can use the includes option in the yaml to specify a custom addition to your latex header. The yaml part would look like

---
output: 
    pdf_document:
      keep_tex: true
      includes:
          in_header: header.tex
---

and you need to save a separate file called header.tex with the following defining your company logo like so:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\rhead{\includegraphics[width = .05\textwidth]{logo.png}}

Here I used the fancyhdr latex package to add the logo, but there are other potential solutions. See here for more options.

Answer 2

Ok, I have found the solution:

---
title:
header-includes: 
   \usepackage{graphicx}
   \usepackage{fancyhdr}
   \pagestyle{fancy}
   \setlength\headheight{28pt}
   \fancyhead[L]{\includegraphics[width=5cm]{GPIM_Logo_300x85.png}}
   \fancyfoot[LE,RO]{GPIM}
output: pdf_document
---

Answer 3

I've tried many solutions presented here and in other forums, none of which worked. I've finally came to a solution that worked for me.

---
title: 'Fancy Title Here'
author: "Diego"
date: "today"
output:
  pdf_document:
    toc: yes
header-includes:
    - \usepackage{fancyhdr}
---
\addtolength{\headheight}{1.0cm} % make more space for the header
\pagestyle{fancyplain} % use fancy for all pages except chapter start
\rhead{\includegraphics[height=1.2cm]{C:/Path/to/logo/logo}} % right logo
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % remove rule below header

I hope that helps someone the same way it helped me.

Answer 4

For those using flexdashboardsee this addition to entry preamble text for logos and favicon, although its upper left not right:

http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/flexdashboard/using.html#logo__favicon

so your start of the .Rmd file looks like this:

---
title: "myappR"
output:
  flexdashboard::flex_dashboard:
    logo: mylogo.png
    favicon: mylogo.png
    theme: bootstrap
runtime: shiny
---

I left my logo in the root directory with a simple name. And:

• Kept logo height 48 pixels as this plays nicely with the theme,
• Be careful of spaces and indents and,
• Do not forget the ending : after flexdashboard.

Answer 5

I have found a solution to make a logo only on the first page:

\addtolength{\headheight}{1.0cm} % make more space for the header
\fancypagestyle{plain}{} % this is to remove the default plain style for the first page
\thispagestyle{fancy} % use fancy for all pages except chapter start
\fancyhead[L]{\includegraphics[width = 100pt]{ManchesterLogo.png}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % remove rule below header