r - Is it possible to include svg image in pdf document rendered by rmarkdown?

Question

I want an svg image to be embedded in an pdf document that I render by using rmarkdown. This doesn't seem possible, or do I miss something? If it's not possible is there a way to first convert the .svg image to a .png before embedding it?

In my rmarkdown file it looks like this (notice the two different kinds of inserting the image):

```{r results="asis",eval=TRUE,echo=FALSE,message=FALSE, error=FALSE, warning=FALSE, comment = NA,fig.height=10}

cat("![](svg_file.svg)")

```

![](svg_file.svg)

Answer 1

Now we can simply use the cowplot library to read an image and plot it in R markdown.

```{r figSvg,eval=TRUE,echo=FALSE,message=FALSE, error=FALSE, warning=FALSE,fig.height=10}

library(cowplot)
fig_svg<-cowplot::ggdraw()+cowplot::draw_image("http://jeroen.github.io/images/tiger.svg")
plot(fig_svg)