[knitr] Update pdf cropping detection to latest knitr version and allow opt out using crop: false
chunk option
#7877
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This PR
It update our R code to use the latest fix from yihui/knitr#2246 (when recent version of knitr is used)
and it adds support to use
crop: false
chunk option to opt out cropping feature in PDF.Either at chunk level
or globally
The usual knitr way is
crop: null
but this is less known and easy to rememberand