Can I change MSWord Normal style when using RMarkdown and knitr without affecting R code chunk output

Question

I am attempting to write a document using RMarkdown v2 (see below) and then knit this to MSWord using "Knit Word" within RStudio (v 0.8.1091) (knitr v1.8). I have modified the normal style in a docx document that was created through knitting such that text with the normal style will be double-spaced and the first line of the paragraph will be indented. I included this docx file in reference_docx in the YAML header. This works fine except that the R code is also double-spaced with the first line indented (see below). I had assumed that the code chunk was a different style that I could alter but I have not yet determined what that style is.

So, how can I change the main text in my resulting MSWord file without changing the R code chunk style?

My RMarkdown document looks like this ...

---
title: "Chapter XX: XXXXX"
author: "Derek H. Ogle"
output:
  word_document:
    highlight: tango
    reference_docx: CSS.docx
---

R code can be shown in a box

```{r}
tmp <- rnorm(100)
summary(tmp)
```

R results can be included in a dynamic sentence, like this one that shows that the mean of the temporary data.frame is `r round(mean(tmp),2)` and the standard deviation is `r round(sd(tmp),2)`.

The resulting Word document looks like this ...

Thank you in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Open your CSS.docx in Word, search for the style named SourceCode. Then edit this style to have single line spacing.