How to change the spacing between paragraph on rmarkdown?

Question

Is it possible to change the size of space between the paragraphs for the pdf output?

I've tried to add two space at the end of line that creates single line break. However I want to adjust the exact size of that space (eg. 1.5 pt).

Answer 1

You can manually pad where required as already suggested, or you can set (globally, or locally within a group) /parskip.

Please take note the "final amount" of space should be the sum of that and whatever the product of baselineskip and baselinestretch is.

Answer 2

You may be looking for something like this $\vspace{1.5cm}$