Removing pagebreak/space between heading and first graph of RMarkdown 'asis' output.

[williaml]

Hi, does anyone know how to remove the pagebreak between heading and first graph of RMarkdown 'asis' output.

In an rmd file.

---
title: test
output:
  word_document
---

```{r, mtcars-plots, echo=FALSE, results='asis', fig.width=8, fig.height=9}
for (i in names(mtcars)) {
  cat('\n\n# Summary of the variable `', i, '`\n\n')
  x <- mtcars[, i]
  hist(x, xlab = i, main = '')
  plot(table(x), xlab = i, ylab = 'Frequency', lwd = 10)
}

For example, the output of the code above is:

How would you remove the white space?

[AyushBipinPatel]

Hello @williaml ,

I am able to reproduce the issue with the code you have shared.

One way to address the issue is by decreasing the height of the plots/figures using fig.height, consider the example here:

---
title: "test pagge breaks"
output: word_document
date: "2023-01-10"
---




```{r, mtcars-plots, echo=FALSE, results='asis', fig.width=8, fig.height=4}
for (i in names(mtcars)) {
  cat('\n\n# Summary of the variable `', i, '`\n\n')
  x <- mtcars[, i]
  hist(x, xlab = i, main = '')
  plot(table(x), xlab = i, ylab = 'Frequency', lwd = 10)
}

Alternatively, my guess is that creating a reference template of word docx and using it in YAML can help as well. you can read more about it here. This reference docx/template can have the margins and other styles of your prefrence.

Hope this helps,
Ayush

[williaml]

Thanks for the response @AyushBipinPatel In my real dataset, the graphs need to be that size. I'll look in to the YAML though, but I've also got a standard template to work with.

[williaml]

The answer that it just needs extra text lines. An extra cat line before and between the graphs solved it.