It'd also be useful to insert images via drag-and-drop of the files themselves see #4037. display a dialog on paste - which could always be instantly dismissed with Enter - offering a just-in-time opportunity to supply a meaningful filename, location (saved as default for the doc), and alt text. This would be very convenient for writing R Markdown documents that use a lot of external images!Īside from technical hurdles, we'd want to be sure that this didn't do too much to encourage users to have images with meaningless names and no alt-text. This R Markdown/Bookdown syntax is more complex than basic Markdown image. Because images are so important Markdown Monster offers quite a few ways to embed images into a Markdown document: Type it in using Markdown (image.png) or HTML syntax Using the Embed Image.
#Insert image rmarkdown code#
The image is uploaded, saved with a unique name, and the code to reference it is generated and inserted at the cursor. Make sure that color images include high contrast and/or shading, because they. In some Markdown editors, including the one on which I'm writing this, it's possible to just paste images right into the editor.
Currently, adding an image to an R Markdown document from the clipboard is remarkably cumbersome.