How to make image appear on the top of the first page in rmarkdown documents

Question

I try to put image file (logo.png) on the top of the first page of my document. I followed the guideline from here: Insert a logo in upper right corner of R markdown pdf document. However, the image still does not appear. My code is: I still don't know what's wrong with my codes. Thanks.

---
title: 'Theory'
date: "Fall 2021"
output:
  pdf_document:
    keep_tex: yes
    fig_caption: yes
    latex_engine: pdflatex
    template: Syllabus_template.tex
  html_document:
    df_print: paged
geometry: margin=1in

header-includes:        
- \usepackage{fancyhdr}       
- \usepackage{graphicx}       
- \usepackage{eurosym}   
- \usepackage{booktabs,xcolor}   
- \pagestyle{fancy}   
- \fancyhf{}   
- \addtolength{\headheight}{1.0cm}  
- \rhead{MainSky Stress Test Report - \today}   
- \lhead{\includegraphics[width=6cm]{/Users/jj/Documents/logo.png}}   
- \rfoot{Page \thepage} 
- \fancypagestyle{plain}{\pagestyle{fancy}} 



#Fill this in with any number of instructors. It uses a two column layout with a column break after each instructor.



# teachingassistant:
#  - name: Filler
#    email: filler@fill.com
#    officehours: W T
#    office: OfficeNumber
#    sections: '301'
   
classroom: 'Remote (either MS Teams or Zoom)'
fontsize: 11pt
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(timeDate)
library(tibble)
library(dplyr)
library(knitr)

#This code chunk sets up a table of meeting days for the course.
#You can set days of the week for course meetings (e.g. Monday and Wednesday).
#Semester start and end dates are selected and then university holidays like spring break are specified.

If I remove `template: Syllabus_template.tex` your code works fine for me and shows an image on the first page. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Aug 13 '22 at 21:17
thanks, however, it appears on every page. Could you let me know how to make it appear only on the first page without horizontal line below the image (header)? — jck21, Aug 13 '22 at 21:24

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-13T22:47:47.727

You can add an image to the title page like this:

---
title: 'Theory'
date: "Fall 2021"
output:
  pdf_document:
    keep_tex: yes
    fig_caption: yes
    latex_engine: pdflatex
    # template: Syllabus_template.tex
  html_document:
    df_print: paged
geometry: margin=1in

header-includes:        
- \usepackage{graphicx}       
- \usepackage{eurosym}   
- \usepackage{booktabs,xcolor}   
- \makeatletter\patchcmd{\@maketitle}{\begin{center}}{\begin{center}\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-duck}\par}{}{}\makeatother




#Fill this in with any number of instructors. It uses a two column layout with a column break after each instructor.



# teachingassistant:
#  - name: Filler
#    email: filler@fill.com
#    officehours: W T
#    office: OfficeNumber
#    sections: '301'
   
classroom: 'Remote (either MS Teams or Zoom)'
fontsize: 11pt
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(timeDate)
library(tibble)
library(dplyr)
library(knitr)

#This code chunk sets up a table of meeting days for the course.
#You can set days of the week for course meetings (e.g. Monday and Wednesday).
#Semester start and end dates are selected and then university holidays like spring break are specified.

Thanks so much, just wonder if you could fix two issues: first, the image is a lot lower than I aimed; second, could you remove top horizontal line on the first page? — jck21, Aug 13 '22 at 22:09
@joe Did you try with the code from my answer? There is no horizontal line because I removed the fancyhdr package. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Aug 13 '22 at 22:48
.... for the vertical position: you can hack it using something like `\vskip-3cm` before the graphic — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Aug 13 '22 at 22:51

How to make image appear on the top of the first page in rmarkdown documents

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