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Rmarkdown: Turn off title

How do I turn off the title in an Rmd HTML document?

---
title: ""
output: html_document
---

rmarkdown::render("index.Rmd")

[WARNING] This document format requires a nonempty element. Please specify either 'title' or 'pagetitle' in the metadata. Falling back to 'index.utf8'

Looking for a quick easy fix without having to modify the underlying template.

Solution

  • This creates a blank page.

    ---
title: " "
output: html_document
---

    Further, it might be the case that " " adds unwanted white space to the top of the corresponding webpage. Using " " does the same thing without adding the potential white space.

    For background, &...; are known as "entities" in HTML language, with   being an entity name standing for "non-breaking space" while   is an entity code indicating a "space." More description and other entities can be found here, for example: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp