R Programming By Example

Images

Images have a similar structure to links, but they are preceded by an exclamation mark (!). The name for the image (what is contained inside the brackets) is only shown if the actual image was not (for example, the file was not found in the specified route). The URL is replaced by the path to the image you want to show. By default, an image's size will be as large as possible. Under the assumption that the images are within a directory named images in the same directory as the Markdown file is, the following example works.

If we use the following input:

[The R Project for Statistical Computing](./images/r.png) [Packt Publishing](./images/packt-publishing.png)

We get the following output: