Inserting a page break within a code chunk in rmarkdown (converting to pdf)

Question

I am using rmarkdown, pandoc and knitr to create a pdf including chunks of r code. Within a code chunk I have a for loop which prints a number of graphs and some statistical out

Answer 1

How to insert a page break within an Rstudio .Rmd code chunk that survives conversion to PDF:

If the \newpage and \pagebreak latex macros aren't working for you, here's a workaround using HTML.

For example:

---
title: "The Rent"
output:
  pdf_document: default
  html_document: default
---

# This is pre-chunk text.

```{r, echo=FALSE, results='asis'}
print("Now we're inside the chunk, using the power of HTML.


!")

print("As you can see from the following diagram")
cat("\n")
print("The rent...
")
print(plot(1:10))

print("
")    #forced new-page happens here.

print("
Is too damned high!!
")
writeLines("\n")
print("Finished")
cat("\n\n")
```
This is post chunk text.

Produces this for me:

The key ingredients is the print("

") and the {r, echo=FALSE, results='asis'} in the chunk header.