Markdown is thought as a “lightweight” markup language, hence the name markdown. That’s why formatting options are scarce. However, there are some extensions, for instance brought by RMarkdown. One point of particular interest is the sizing of figures. Let’s look at some ways how to size a figure with RMarkdown. We take some data first: data(mtcars) names(mtcars) ## [1] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" "drat" "wt" "qsec" "vs" "am" "gear" ## [11] "carb" Not let’s …