How to add \newpage in Rmarkdown in a smart way?

126
votes

I wonder if one could simply use LaTeX \newpage command in R markdown v2 in a different way than this:

```{r, results='asis', echo=FALSE}
cat("\\newpage")
```

I produce pdf_output. If any1 has any idea please do not hesitate to comment :) ! Thanks

I create pdf like this:

---
title: " "
author: " "
date: "2014"
output: 
   pdf_document:
      includes:
         in_header: naglowek.tex
      highlight: pygments
      toc: true
      toc_depth: 3
      number_sections: true
      keep_tex: true
---
4
rr-markdown
And then what packages/functions do you use? Or do you just click buttons in RStudio? – Spacedman
What's the difference? My packages or functions has nothing to do with that I'd like to add newpage in some parts of code. – Marcin Kosiński
Its nice to see the complete workflow - there's various ways of going from markdown to PDF. Without that, we're guessing. Good guess @tonytonov – Spacedman
I don't think so it was a guess. It was easy question I think you overestimated it. Btw thanks for chat. Have a nice day. – Marcin Kosiński

4 Answers

188
votes

Simply \newpage or \pagebreak will work, e.g.

hello world
\newpage
```{r, echo=FALSE}
1+1
```
\pagebreak
```{r, echo=FALSE}
plot(1:10)
```

This solution assumes you are knitting PDF. For HTML, you can achieve a similar effect by adding a tag <P style="page-break-before: always">. Note that you likely won't see a page break in your browser (HTMLs don't have pages per se), but the printing layout will have it.

29
votes

In the initialization chunk I define a function

pagebreak <- function() {
  if(knitr::is_latex_output())
    return("\\newpage")
  else
    return('<div style="page-break-before: always;" />')
}

In the markdown part where I want to insert a page break, I type 

`r pagebreak()`
13
votes

You can make the pagebreak conditional on knitting to PDF. This worked for me.

```{r, results='asis', eval=(opts_knit$get('rmarkdown.pandoc.to') == 'latex')}
cat('\\pagebreak')
```
0
votes

If you're having problems with \newpage or \pagebreak and floating figures/tables. You need to use \clearpage, as answered here.