RMarkdown change the order of author and title

Question

I'm trying to align right author and put it before the title that is centered.

---
author: "Author name" 
title: "Title name"
output: pdf_document
header-includes:
    - \usepackage{titling}
    - \preauthor{\begin{flushright}}
    - \postauthor{\end{flushright}}

---

Answer 1

There is a } lacking at the end of - \preauthor{\begin{flushright}. In order to move the author up, you may use \vspace*{-1.5cm}.

Code:

---
author: "Author name" 
title: "Title name"
output: pdf_document
header-includes:
    - \usepackage{titling}
    - \preauthor{\begin{flushright}\vspace*{-1.5cm}}
    - \postauthor{\end{flushright}}
---

-output