Inserting title page with image in Rmarkdown to render a pdf document

Question

In Rmarkdown, the following sets the context to generate the pdf document:

---
title: \"My Report\"
author: NDE
output:
  pdf_document:
  fig_caption: true
          


        

Answer 1

For me it worked using LaTeX commands \clearpage and \tableofcontents:

---
title: "image before toc"
output: pdf_document
---

\centering

![Caption](folder/image.png)

\raggedright
\clearpage
\tableofcontents

# header 1
lore ipsum

## header 2
lore ipsum 

## header 3
lore ipsum 

# header 4

If you want the table of contents on the title page, just leave \clearpage command out.

I included \centering and \raggedright commands to center the image on the title page but not the text.

Hope that works for you.