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Omar113
Omar113

Reputation: 210

How to indent in rmarkdown for word document output?

I am writing a code inside a loop that looks like this:

for (i in c(1:5)) {

    cat("  ", i,".","**", "Header one","**" , " "  , sep = "\n")
    cat("A)", "Subheader one"  , sep = "\n")
    cat("B)", "Subheader two"  , sep = "\n")
    }

I want it to appear in the rendered file as : 

  Header One  
          A) Subtitle one
          B) Subtitle two

how to acheive that? Edit This is intended to be exported to word .docx

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1805

Answers (1)

r2evans
r2evans

Reputation: 160687

A few thoughts:

  1. Use the chunk option results="asis", this tells knitr to write raw results from R into the output document (which assumes that it is valid in a markdown file) (ref: https://yihui.name/knitr/options/#text-results)

  2. You don't actually have to force the increasing number for the top-level list, the numbers themselves are ignored by pandoc and converted into a sequential list (ref: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#ordered-lists)

  3. If you add too many spaces to the sublists, they may be considered a preformatted code block, so be careful. Namely, 8 is too many, 4 works.

This works:

---
output: html_document
---

```{r chunk1, echo=FALSE, results="asis"}
for (i in 1:5) {
  cat("1. Header one",
      "    A) Subheader one",
      "    B) Subheader two",
      sep = "\n")
}
```

produces this:

markdown output screenshot

with this underlying HTML:

<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
<li>Header one</li>
</ol>
<ol style="list-style-type: upper-alpha">
<li>Subheader one</li>
<li>Subheader two</li>
</ol>
<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
<li>Header one</li>
</ol>
<ol style="list-style-type: upper-alpha">
<li>Subheader one</li>
<li>Subheader two</li>
...

Notes:

  • I find it confusing to have so many empty strings and such in your example, so I "efficiency'ed" them out. If you have specific formats you want/need, then you can do something like this with sprintf:

    ---
output: html_document
---

```{r chunk1, echo=FALSE, results="asis"}
for (i in 1:5) {
  cat(sprintf("1. Header %d", i),
      sprintf("    A) Subheader one - %d", i),
      "    F) Subheader two",
      sep = "\n")
}
```

    to produce this:

    more markdown output screenshot

  • c(1:5) is the same as 1:5, no c() requirement

  • multiple calls to cat are okay, realizing you need to closely manage the seps between parts of a single call and whatever is needed between calls to cat (I prefer one call)

Edit

I exported this to Word, too, with:

---
output: word_document
---

and the sublevels are also indented correctly:

screenshot of word output

If you see something different, then this could be due to the style in place in the DOCX. This is typically controlled in the reference document, ref: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/word_document_format#style_reference. I'm using rmarkdown-1.10 on R-3.5.1, if that differs for you, consider your upgrade options.

Upvotes: 4

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