Templates seem to force the use of graphics instead of graphicx

[FvD]

Thank you for the great examples of what can be done with rmarkdown. I'm trying to tweak one of them for my own use, but run into the typical graphics vs graphicx issues that I have been unable to solve by adding an \includepackage{graphicx} to the top of the template file.

Is there any reason for this? Whatever I do am forced to do (graphics style):

\scalebox{0.50}{\includegraphics{image}}

and any graphicx variations will fail, e.g.

\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{image}

even in I add \includepackage{graphicx}.

[svmiller]

Hi Frans,

I'm not quite sure what the issue is. To what template are you referring? Are you inserting graphics in Markdown format or as standalone .tex code?

A minimal working example may help.