Creating a footer for every page using R markdown

Question

I\'m writing a document in R Markdown and I\'d like it to include a footer on every page when I knit a PDF document. Does anyone have any idea on how to do this?

Answer 1

To manage the height of the footer, you can use the following:

date: '`r paste("Date:",Sys.Date())`'
output:
  pdf_document: 
    latex_engine: xelatex
header-includes:
      - \setlength{\footskip}{-50pt} # set the footer size

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