Inserting title page with image in Rmarkdown to render a pdf document

Question

In Rmarkdown, the following sets the context to generate the pdf document:

---
title: "My Report"
author: NDE
output:
  pdf_document:
  fig_caption: true
  toc: true
  highlight: kate
---

I want to insert a title page with an image, title before table of contents gets printed. Is there a way I can achieve it?

Solution

For me it worked using LaTeX commands \clearpage and \tableofcontents:

---
title: "image before toc"
output: pdf_document
---

\centering

![Caption](folder/image.png)

\raggedright
\clearpage
\tableofcontents

# header 1
lore ipsum

## header 2
lore ipsum 

## header 3
lore ipsum 

# header 4

If you want the table of contents on the title page, just leave \clearpage command out.

I included \centering and \raggedright commands to center the image on the title page but not the text.

Hope that works for you.

Comments

[user3498523]

Check answer here is a solution using LaTeX

[Anna Dunietz]

@Next Door Engineer: Were you ever able to figure this out?

[Next Door Engineer]

@Anna, Nope. Haven't gotten to get this route to work.