First-line paragraph indenting in PDFs using R Markdown

Question

I\'m hoping this is a question with a simple answer. I am using Rmarkdown/knitr to author a PDF document (in RStudio). Many LaTeX classes (like article) automatically indent

Answer 1

The default Pandoc template includes an indent argument. If set to true, paragraphs start with an indentation.

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title: "Title"
author: "Me"
output: pdf_document
indent: true
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