How to add whitespace to an RMarkdown document?
To create vertical space (Markdown to PDF), I use
This command works like \vspace{12pt}
for latex.
You can use latex inside your Rmd file. To have a page break, just add \newpage
.
example.Rmd
Title
====================
This is a test Rmd document.
\newpage
Second page
====================
This text is on the second page
You make a pdf using render("example.Rmd", output_format='pdf_document')
Hope it helps,
alex
Another easy way to do this is to just use HTML tags. Adding <br>
will give a single line break and I've used that when, for whatever reason, using the (two-space indentation) is ignored.