How do I specify [H] for HOLD_position?

[Ranae]

I am trying to get a table in an Rmarkdown pdf to stay in the right place. I used kableExtra to make the table and it looks like this:

kable(site_info, "latex", caption = "Site Information", booktabs = T, align = "c") %>%
collapse_rows(columns = 1, latex_hline = "major", valign = "middle")%>%
kable_styling(latex_options = "hold_position")   

It doesn't place the table where I want it, so I want to try the stronger option in the kableExtra documentation:

If you find hold_position is not powerful enough to literally PIN your table in the exact position, you may want to use HOLD_position, which is a more powerful version of this feature. For those who are familiar with LaTeX, hold_position uses [!h] and HOLD_position uses [H] and the float package.

I added the float package in my YAML, but how do I use the [H]?

For figures, I could use the knitr option fig.pos = "H", but this didn't work for the table.

---

Here is some example reproducible code of the problem. The table ends up at the top, just like in my real document:

---
title: "Put things in order"
author: "Ranae N. Dietzel"
header-includes:
  - \usepackage{float}
output:
  pdf_document: default
fig_caption: yes
---

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE, message = FALSE, warning = FALSE)

library(tidyverse)
library(kableExtra)

ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=cut, y=price))+
  geom_boxplot()

diamonds_summary<-diamonds%>%
  group_by(cut)%>%
  summarise(mean = mean(price))

kable(diamonds_summary, "latex", caption = "Price Summary", booktabs = T, align = "c") %>%
  collapse_rows(columns = 1, latex_hline = "major", valign = "middle")%>%
  kable_styling(latex_options = "HOLD_position")

ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=carat, y=price))+
  geom_point()

[jdb]

If you've added the float package, then the following should work:

kable(site_info, "latex", caption = "Site Information", booktabs = T, align = "c") %>%
collapse_rows(columns = 1, latex_hline = "major", valign = "middle")%>%
kable_styling(latex_options = "HOLD_position")   # Change will be here

[Ranae]

Thanks! But it doesn't work. I feel like there must be one more step I am missing.

[jdb]

I ran your example

---
title: "Put things in order"
author: "JDB"
header-includes:
  - \usepackage{float}
output:
  pdf_document: default
fig_caption: yes
---

```{r}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE, message = FALSE, warning = FALSE)

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(kableExtra)
```

```{r}
ggplot(diamonds, aes(x=cut, y=price))+
  geom_boxplot()
```


```{r}
diamonds_summary<-diamonds%>%
  group_by(cut)%>%
  summarise(mean = mean(price))

kable(diamonds_summary, "latex", caption = "Price Summary", booktabs = T, align = "c") %>%
  collapse_rows(columns = 1, latex_hline = "major", valign = "middle")%>%
  kable_styling(latex_options = "HOLD_position")
```

```{r}
sessioninfo::session_info()
```

which produced this file document.pdf (234.9 KB)

The table seems to hold its position. Is this what you'd like to see?

[Ranae]

At least the table is not at top! Yes, it looks better.

But I am wondering why you are getting echos and messages if they are set to FALSE? Also missing the figure caption and third plot.

Mine looks a lot different: ordering_example.pdf (1.6 MB)

[hao_ye]

So I think what's going on is that the figures are allowed to float, and so they can get pushed to different pages. (When I rendered your sample, it looked the same as @Ranae's with the table on the first page, and the figures on the remaining pages.)

I found this link with description of how to set the figures to fix in place -- you may have to play around with the chunk options to fix only the figures that you want:

Knitr ignoring fig.pos?

[jdb]

Does the rmarkdown, knitr, and kableExtra version in my document match yours, @Ranae?

[Ranae]

Thank you!!! It is working now.

It seems that when I used the fig.cap = "caption" option, this kept my figures from floating, but the table still floated and ended up in random places. I added one line to my YAML, as suggested by the second answerer and then the table ended up between figures. My final YAML was:

---
title: "Arising From Supplementary Materials"
author: "Ranae N. Dietzel"
header-includes:
  - \usepackage{float}
  - \floatplacement{figure}{H}  #make every figure with caption = h, this was the fix
output:
  pdf_document: default
fig_caption: yes
---

[hao_ye]

Cool - glad it worked out! That's definitely a better way than my backup work-around, which was to poke at the intermediate .tex file.