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

I believe the following in your YAML header will work the same and has the advantage of still compiling should you decide to knit your document to an HTML file (though, I haven't tested this).

----
title: "Title"
author: "Me"
header-includes:
   - \setlength\parindent{24pt}
output:
    pdf_document
----