Is there an option to control output page orientation (using knitr->pander->pandoc->docx)

Question

I am playing with Tal\'s intro to producing word tables with as little overhead as possible in real world situations. (Please see for reproducible examples there - Thanks, Tal!)

Answer 1

Based on Taleb's answer here and some officer package functions, I created a little gist that one can use like this:

---
title: "Example"
author: "Dan Chaltiel"
output: 
  word_document:
    pandoc_args:
     '--lua-filter=page-break.lua'
---

I'm in portrait

\endLandscape

I'm in landscape

\endPortrait

I'm in portrait again

With page-breaks.lua being the file hosted here: https://gist.github.com/DanChaltiel/e7505e62341093cfdc489265963b6c8f

This is far from perfect (for instance it won't work without the last portrait section), but it is quite useful sometimes.