I want to use a different latex template for rendering R markdown version 2.
I found the following suggestions:
a) location of template
system.file("rmd/latex/default.tex", package="rmarkdown)
b) change of YAML front matter
---
...
output:
pdf_document:
template: mytemplate.tex
---
However, his does not seem to be the correct template location for R Studio/ Pandoc, as I get the following error message:
pandoc.exe: Could not find data file templates\mytemplate.tex
Ok, I think I have the answer, the default directory for Pandoc can be found here:
system("pandoc -v")
If the folder does not exist, create it as well as a subfolder called templates and copy your tex template here.
You can see the original template here:
system("pandoc -D latex")
Not sure if you figured it out or not but this may be a useful link. http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/developer_document_templates.html I am finding myself in the same boat as you wanting to create a custom template to output to PDF.
Just put the style.tex file in the same folder as the markdown file does now works for me.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26604138/r-studio-change-pandoc-tex-template