How to add a page break in word document generated by RStudio & markdown

Question

I writing a Word document with R markdown in R Studio. I can get many things, but at the moment I am not figuring out how can I get a page break. I have found solutions but

Answer 1

Here is an R script that can be used as a pandoc filter to replace LaTeX breaks (\pagebreak) with word breaks, per @JAllen's answer above. With this you don't need to compile a pandoc script. Since you are working in R Markdown I assume one has R available in the system.

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript

json_in <- file('stdin', 'r')
lat_newp <- '{"t":"RawBlock","c":["latex","\\\\newpage"]}'
doc_newp <- '{"t":"RawBlock","c":["openxml",""]}'
ast <- paste(readLines(json_in, warn=FALSE), collapse="\n")
ast <- gsub(lat_newp, doc_newp, ast, fixed=TRUE)
write(ast, "")

Save this as page-break-filter.R or something like that and make it executable by running chmod +x page-break-filter.R in the terminal.

Then include this filter the R Markdown YAML like so:

---
title: "Title
author: "Author"
output:  
  word_document:
    pandoc_args: [
      "--filter", "/path/to/page-break-filter.R"
    ]
---