Split the title onto multiple lines?

Question

In an R markdown document (html and presentations), is it possible to manually split the title onto multiple lines? I tried playing with pipes which produces orrendous outpu

Answer 1

For PDF output, experimentation revealed that the following works:

---
title:  'A title I want to  \nsplit on two lines'
author: 
date: 
output: pdf_document
---

That is two spaces followed by \n.