How to hold figure position with figure caption in pdf output of knitr?

Question

I am using knitr (1.9.5 and 1.9.17) and rmarkdown (0.5.3.1), and would like to hold figure position in the pdf output. The generated pdf file is working fine when chunk opti

Answer 1

As Andrew pointed out, this fig.pos doesn't work in chunks, but it does work if it is put in global options:

```{r global_options, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(fig.pos = 'H')
```

EDIT: the above apparently used to work and needs \usepackage{float} in the preamble:

header-includes:
 \usepackage{float}

See also here.