Double spacing for PDFs in LaTeX

[christophergandrud]

It occurred to me that you cannot easily create PDFs with double spacing in R Markdown. So I submitted a pull request to the rmarkdown repo adding this capability.

If you download the GitHub version of R Markdown now you will be able to use double spacing (the new CRAN version should be out soon-ish):

devtools::install_github('rstudio/rmarkdown')

Then in the YAML header of your .Rmd file use setspace: doublespacing. For example:

---
title: "Untitled"
author: "Christopher Gandrud"
date: "25 October 2014"
setspace: doublespacing
output: pdf_document

---

[SaschaSchuster]

That is pretty cool...I wish I'd known that like....17 hours ago ;)

[christophergandrud]

:+1:

Actually, it didn't exist 17 hours ago. I only added it in this morning.

[christophergandrud]

The rmarkdown syntax has changed for double spacing. Now use:

title: "Untitled"
author: "Somebody"
date: "8 December 2014"
linestretch: 2 
output: pdf_document

[Zigzig]

Hi, How to download the Github version of rmarkdown?

[christophergandrud]

@Zigzig I'm unclear about what you are talking about.

[klocey]

Thanks for this @christophergandrud!

[christophergandrud]

:+1: