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

Ok, I found this in the markdown docs.

Horizontal Rule / Page Break

Three or more asterisks *** or dashes ---.

Answer 2

There is an easier way by using a fifth-level header block (#####) and a docx template defined in YAML.

After creating headingfive.docx in Microsoft Word, you select Modify Style of the Heading 5, and then select Page break before in the Line and Page Breaks tab and save the headingfive.docx file.

---
title: 'Making page break using fifth-level header block'
output: 
  word_document:
    reference_docx: headingfive.docx
---

In your Rmd document, you define reference_docx in the YAML header, and now you can use the page-breaking #####.

Please see below.

https://www.r-bloggers.com/r-markdown-how-to-insert-page-breaks-in-a-ms-word-document/

Answer 3

Sungpil's article was close, but didn't quite work. This was the best solution I found for this: https://scriptsandstatistics.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/rmarkdown-how-to-inserts-page-breaks-in-a-ms-word-document/

Even better, the author included the Word template to make this work. The R-blogger's link to his template is broken, and the header is formatted wrong. Some notes I took:

1) You might need to include the whole path to the word template in your Rmd header, like so:

output: 
    word_document:
      reference_docx: C:/workspace/myproject/mystyles.docx

2) The template at the link above changed some of the default style settings so you'll need to change them back

Answer 4

With the help of John MacFarlane and others on the pandoc google group, I put together a filter that does this. Please see: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/FzLrhk0vVbU In short, the filter needs to look for something to replace with the openxml for pagebreak. In this case \newpage is being replaced with <w:p><w:r><w:br w:type=\"page\"/></w:r></w:p> This allows for a single latex markup to be interpreted for both pdf and word output. Joel