Inserting a page break within a code chunk in rmarkdown (converting to pdf)

Question

I am using rmarkdown, pandoc and knitr to create a pdf including chunks of r code. Within a code chunk I have a for loop which prints a number of graphs and some statistical out

Answer 1

See below a reduced and reproducible example. The answer and some general remarks:

• To dynamically create new pages or sections in a markdown document use results='asis' in the chunk options.
• You have to add a linebreak (\n) after \\pagebreak or else "ValueForV" will be pasted directly after "\linebreak", which results in an Undefined control sequence error.
• Make sure that \newpage and \pagebreak are in a separate line by using linebreaks \n before.

• Escape \newpage and \pagebreak (i.e., \\newpage, \\pagebreak).

  ---
  title: "test"
  output: pdf_document
  ---
  
  ```{r, echo=FALSE, results='asis'}
  for (i in 1:3) {
    print(ggplot2::qplot(i, i+1))
    cat("\n\n\\pagebreak\n")
    writeLines("ValueForV")
  }
  ```