Insert a logo in upper right corner of R markdown html document

Question

I'm trying to put my company logo on the right corner of my html document

Here my code:

<script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $head = $('#header');
    $head.prepend('<div class="knitr source"><img src="logo.png" width="220px" align="right"   ></div>')
  });
</script>

---
title: "Title"
author: "Author"
date: "Date"
theme: bootstrap
output: html_document
keep_md: true
---

```{r echo=FALSE,  include=FALSE}
knitr::include_graphics('./logo.png')
```

<br>

## 1) Header

<br>
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However, because the logo.png is a local file when sharing the html document people are not able to see it.

Additionally, I tried the following approach

---
title: "Title"
author: "Author"
date: "Date"

output: 
  html_document:
    css: markdown.css
    includes:
      in_header: extLogo.html
---

where extLogo.html

<div class="logos"><img src="logo.png" width="220px" align="right"></div>

But it creates a div outside the div where the Title is (<div class="container-fluid main-container">). Can anyone help on this?

Answer 1

You can use htmltools::img with a little inline CSS for positioning. src can take a path directly, but when images aren't just handled like plots, sometimes knitting fails to convert images to a URI properly, which in turn causes them to fail to render. Using self_contained: false in the YAML is a quick solution, but it's not much harder to use knitr::image_uri to manually convert the image:

---
title: "Title"
author: "Author"
output: html_document
---


```{r, echo=FALSE}
htmltools::img(src = knitr::image_uri(file.path(R.home("doc"), "html", "logo.jpg")), 
               alt = 'logo', 
               style = 'position:absolute; top:0; right:0; padding:10px;')
```

---

# 1. Header

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