Newbie: How to add commands which must follow \begin{document}?

[wmeyer48]

Only a few days into RStudio and bookdown, so forgive me if I don't frame the question in the right terms.

As I understand it, preamble.tex deals with things before the \begin{document} execution, so is fine for adding \usepackage{} and whatnot. Is there a comparable place where commands to those packages can be inserted such that they will be put into the LaTeX file in (or by) pandoc?

[cderv]

You are probably looking for before_body .

Usually preamble.tex does indeed go in in_header

More about those options:

• 6.1 Add LaTeX code to the preamble | R Markdown Cookbook
• 3.3 PDF document | R Markdown: The Definitive Guide