Open MichaelFolkes opened 2 years ago
unknown float option 'H'
Did you correctly load the float package as in the example ?
output:
pdf_document:
extra_dependencies: ["float"]
It is common error message (https://fr.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Errors/LaTeX_Error%3A_Unknown_float_option_%60H%27)
Just confirming that this issue exists, but only when fig.cap
is set on a figure.
With fig.pos = "!H"
you get the classic "unknown float option 'H'" error. Even with extra_dependices: ["float"]
as required.
Changing it to fig.pos="H"
results in a clean knit.
This can be reproduced easily with the default .Rmd generated from "New R Markdown" by specifying:
output:
pdf_document:
extra_dependencies: ["float"]
and altering the first chunk to be:
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, fig.cap='foo', fig.pos = "!H", out.extra = "")
Knitting will then produce this error. As @MichaelFolkes suggests, dropping down to fig.pos="H"
works.
Presumably it's due to an additional package loaded when figure captions are given which conflicts with the float
package.
Thanks for the additional information @jmarshallnz.
I tried to remove some of the packages to find a possible conflict, but without success.
Do we have a working example in LaTeX using \begin{figure}[!H]
? I can't seem to make one working with a simple document .tex
to compile to .pdf
.
The example https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/figure-placement.html#prevent-figures-from-floating failed for me with an error: unknown float option 'H' (writing that from memory so wording might be incorrect). However removing the "!" from fig.pos = !H allowed the .rmd to compile