I have looked for ways to control the alignment of the text, however I could not find anything for PDF outputs.
There is an existing answer, but related to HTML output only: How to justify the text to both sides when knitting html in rmarkdown.
When you press “Knit to PDF” in RStudio, it converts your R Markdown document into LaTeX. Download MiKTeX from here: https://miktex.org/download • Run the installer, and restart your computer. Open an R Markdown file in RStudio, and try knitting to PDF. You may be prompted to install some packages.
if rendering to HTML, you can use the <p style='text-align:justify;'>your text here</p> tagset.
Rendering output Better still, use the “Knit” button in the RStudio IDE to render the file and preview the output with a single click or keyboard shortcut (⇧⌘K).
Aligning Text By default, all text in Markdown fields are aligned to the left. You can also align to the right, or center the content by wrapping the text in div tags.
R Markdown should default to using justified text. However, if you only want to export to PDF, we can directly use LaTeX commands within the document.using the standard arguments \centering
\raggedright
and \raggedleft
, as explained here.
Here is a minimal example:
---
output: pdf_document
---
```{r, include = FALSE}
devtools::install_github("coolbutuseless/lipsum")
library(lipsum)
```
**Default**
`r lipsum[1]`
\centering
**Centered Text**
`r lipsum[1]`
\raggedright
**Ragged Right**
`r lipsum[1]`
\raggedleft
**Ragged Left**
`r lipsum[1]`
If you want to revert to justified text, you can use the ragged2e
LaTeX package. You will need to load this within the YAML by adding:
---
output: pdf_document
header-includes:
- \usepackage[document]{ragged2e}
---
\raggedleft
**Ragged Left**
`r lipsum[1]`
\justify
**Revert to Justified**
`r lipsum[1]`
If you are using the papaja
template you need to include all the YAML. Not providing an author, shorttitle or another other field will cause it to crash.
---
title : "The title"
shorttitle : "Title"
author:
- name : "First Author"
affiliation : "1"
corresponding : yes # Define only one corresponding author
address : "Postal address"
email : "[email protected]"
- name : "Ernst-August Doelle"
affiliation : "1,2"
affiliation:
- id : "1"
institution : "Wilhelm-Wundt-University"
- id : "2"
institution : "Konstanz Business School"
author_note: |
Add complete departmental affiliations for each author here. Each new line herein must be indented, like this line.
Enter author note here.
abstract: |
Enter abstract here. Each new line herein must be indented, like this line.
keywords : "keywords"
wordcount : "X"
bibliography : ["r-references.bib"]
figsintext : no
figurelist : no
tablelist : no
footnotelist : no
lineno : yes
mask : no
class : "man"
output : papaja::apa6_pdf
header-includes:
- \usepackage[document]{ragged2e}
---
```{r load_packages, include = FALSE}
library(lipsum)
```
\justify
**Default**
`r lipsum[1]`
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With