I have never been able to get the first section of an abstract to be flush with the left side of the page in Rmarkdown. When I render the following MRE ‘Premise’ will be inserted about 2 tabs closer to the center than it should be. ‘Methods and Results’ and ‘Conclusions’ will both be correct.

I am trying to create a list using this code in Rmarkdown:

I create a set of slides using rmarkdown. I add a figure using latex includegraphics which works as expected. But, when I add a figure generate via R code, the ‘latex’ figure disappears.