formatting YAML headers in R

Question

When using the R papaja package template, I figured how to justify (and further format the text in the sections following the YAML header by adding LaTEX packages to the YAML header. E.g:

header-includes:
- \usepackage[document]{ragged2e}

However this will not work for the text in the actual header which contains the text of the abstract of the article. Is there a way to justify the text in the actual YAML header?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 21 '20 at 08:00

Note that papaja is intended to create APA-style documents and is working as intended. That said, in this case it's easy to achieve what you are trying to do by including \justifying in the abstract field of the YAML front matter.

header-includes:
  - \usepackage[document]{ragged2e}

abstract: |
  \justifying
  
  This is the abstract.

formatting YAML headers in R

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