R Markdown Math Equation Alignment

latex, markdown, r, tex

Solution

I'm not quite sure what you're going for here, but line breaks, `\\` go at the end of the 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:

Problem

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. 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.

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