How to separate Title Page and Table of Content Page from knitr rmarkdown PDF?

Question

Anyone have any idea how to separate Title Page and Table of Content page? From this code:

---
title: \"Title Page\"
output: 
  pdf_document:
      toc: true
            


        

Answer 1

I used a trifecta of latex files in the options under includes:

---
title: "Title Page"
output: 
  pdf_document:
  toc: true
    number_sections: true
  includes:
    in_header: latex/header.tex
    before_body: latex/before_body.tex
    after_body: latex/after_body.tex
---

The before_body file contain all of the options you would want AFTER the \begin{document} and the title options, but BEFORE you start writing the body of your document. In that file, simply place a \newline, like so:

\newpage

That's it! Nothing else in the before_body.tex file. That should work.

Now, if only I could vertically center the title page...