R flexdashboard remove title bar

Question

I am working on a project using rMarkdown and the flexdashboard package from rStudio. Everything is coming together nicely. B

Answer 1

I am not aware of any flexdashboard option. But you could use jQuery to remove the navbar and move the body up. Just include the following snippet right after your YAML:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.navbar').remove();
  $('body').css('padding-top', '0px');
});
</script>

I think this leaves the main navigation bar of the parent document untouched. If not it might need some lsight modification.

Answer 2

You can just add CSS styling directly to your markdown document (no JQuery required):

---
title: "Untitled"
output: 
  flexdashboard::flex_dashboard:
    orientation: columns
    vertical_layout: fill
---
<style>

body {
  padding-top:0px
}

.navbar{
  visibility: hidden
}

</style>


```{r setup, include=FALSE}
library(flexdashboard)
```

Column {data-width=650}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

### Chart A

```{r}
hist(iris$Sepal.Length)

```

Column {data-width=350}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

### Chart B

```{r}
hist(iris$Sepal.Width)
```

### Chart C

```{r}
hist(iris$Petal.Length)
```

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