R Bookdown - Custom Title Page

R bookdown - custom title page

I ended up editing the _output.yml file to reference a copy of default-1.17.0.2.tex template in my R project directory using yaml template tag.

bookdown::gitbook:
  css: style.css
  config:
    toc:
      before: |
        <li><a href="./">A Minimal Book Example</a></li>
      after: |
        <li><a href="https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown" target="blank">Published with bookdown</a></li>
    edit: https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown-demo/edit/master/%s
    download: ["pdf", "epub"]
bookdown::pdf_book:
    fig_caption: true
    number_sections: yes
    includes:
        in_header: preamble.tex
    latex_engine: xelatex
    citation_package: natbib
    keep_tex: yes
    template: template.tex
bookdown::epub_book: default

For some reason i had an error compiling the pdf (! Undefined control sequence...) so I included a latex command \usepackage{graphicx} in template.tex to fix it. Now it is supposed that I am free to customize title page and whatsoever.

Add image before bookdown title

This question was answered here.

The solution is to add a JS codeblock to the end of the index.Rmd file, such as

```{js, echo = FALSE}
title=document.getElementById('header');
title.innerHTML = '<img src="/path/to/img.png" alt="Test Image">' + title.innerHTML
```

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