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

Question

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}
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Answer 1

In the initialization chunk I define a function

pagebreak <- function() {
  if(knitr::is_latex_output())
    return("\\newpage")
  else
    return('
')
}

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

`r pagebreak()`