Preamble.tex

% Captions in floating environments
\usepackage[labelsep=colon,tableposition=top,font=small,margin=5pt,format=hang]{caption}

% For subcaptions in figures
\usepackage{subcaption}

% For sidewaysfigure
%\usepackage{rotfloat}

% For professional looking tables
\usepackage{booktabs} 

%\usepackage{multirow}
%\usepackage{multicol}
%\usepackage{longtable}
%\usepackage{tabularx}

% For underscores that correspond to the encoding
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

% For \FloatBarrier
\usepackage[section,below]{placeins}

% Linebreaks in tables
\usepackage{makecell}

% Hyperlinks
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

% Table of content settings
\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}

% Allowed percentages of page a float can use
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.05}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.95}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{0.95}
\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.75}
\setcounter{totalnumber}{5}

% Figure names
\renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}

% Used for knitr images from Rnw files
\newcommand{\subfloat}[2][default for first parameter: need a sub-caption]{\subcaptionbox{#1}{#2}}

% Typesetting commands
\newcommand{\R}{\textbf{\textsf{R}}}