Indent without adding a bullet point or number in RMarkdown

Question

I want to make an indented list, but I don\'t want it to have bullet points or numbers. I am using Rmarkdown in RStudio, and knitting to html.

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Answer 1

If you want to change how a list looks and you're outputting to HTML, use css:

---
title: "ListTest"
output: html_document
---

<style>
.nobullet li {
  list-style-type: none;
}
</style>

<div class="nobullet">
* This list
* Doesn't have bullets
</div>

* This list 
* Is normal

This won't work for other output formats.

Answer 2

This can be achieved using Line Blocks which are built-in to the R Markdown syntax. If you want the indentation to be respected, you can start a line with |.

This approach works across multiple output formats and doesn't require any additional CSS styling:

---
output:
  html_document: default
  pdf_document: default
---

Here is some text with no indentation

|    A list
|         A sublist
|         Sublist Item 2
|         Sublist Item 3