Captions in R Markdown

- [Lecturer] When writing reports or presentations, … which contains many data visualizations … it's important to include captions … as these give context to a visualization. … Here's a screenshot of a GGplot2 Chart … and it's caption below. … Good captions not only explain what a visualization is, … but they also tell you where you are in a report. … So here, we can refer that we are in first section … of our report. … Captions are great, … but the ability to cross-reference content … including both figures and tables, … transforms your complex document … into an easy to read and navigate report. … Particularly where the cross-references are hyperlinks … to the relevant content in your report. … There are a few different approaches to using … captions in our markdown, lets take a look at them. … The three options available to us are. … Fig.cap which is a code chunk option, … baked into knitr and R Markdown. … Captioner a CRAN-hosted package that's quite good. … And then this bookdown, …