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}
cat         


        

Answer 1

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')
```