R Markdown Math Equation Alignment

Question

I am writing a bunch of math equations in R Markdown inside Rstudio. And I want to align the content either to the left or center. However, seems like the align will align them to the right as default.

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I did some google and some of them told me to use a package called ragged2e, but it did not work when I added it in. I am wondering if this should be a latex question or rmarkdown question.

jlhoward · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-26T16:31:06.857

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I'm not quite sure what you're going for here, but line breaks, \\ go at the end of tthe line, not the beginning, and the aligmnent operator is &. So this:

$$
\begin{aligned}
 AR(p): Y_i &= c + \epsilon_i + \phi_i Y_{i-1} \dots \\
 Y_{i} &= c + \phi_i Y_{i-1} \dots
\end{aligned}
$$

produces this:

edited Nov 26 '14 at 16:31

answered Nov 22 '14 at 20:30

jlhoward

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And how do I then left align the entire block on the page? – kdopen Mar 09 '15 at 19:57

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '17 at 11:34

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left align the formula

$\begin{aligned}
AR(p): Y_i &= c + \epsilon_i + \phi_i Y_{i-1} \dots \\
Y_{i} &= c + \phi_i Y_{i-1} \dots
\end{aligned}$

&...& show in the line ; $$...$$ display out;

answered May 23 '17 at 11:34

atongsa

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 14 '19 at 19:16

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Wow. That works great! Thank you for the help! This worked perfectly in R Studio Markdown. My code was in an ordered list and is as follows:

$\begin{aligned}
    \lim_{x \to \infty}\frac{2x-5}{4x^4}=0\\
    \end{aligned}$    

$\begin{aligned}
    \frac{d}{dx}\left( \int_{0}^{x}f(u)\,du\right)=f(x)\\
    \end{aligned}$

answered Apr 14 '19 at 19:16

The Chez

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This does not work in github. Any ideas why? It does in vscode... – brownie Mar 23 '23 at 20:13

R Markdown Math Equation Alignment

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