title: R Markdown add White Space to HTML Output
body: <p>I've found several suggestions for adding whitespace to R Markdown documents including <code>&lt;br&gt;</code>, <code>\newpage</code> and some other things.</p>
  
  <p>These don't work for my HTML output, maybe there's a better way. I'd like to do two things in the example below:</p>
  
  <p>(1) Add extra whitespace between the title and the first header</p>
  
  <p>(2) Add extra whitespace between the first and second paragraphs</p>
  
  <p>Let's go with the default R Markdown document shown below. How would I accomplish this extra white space for HTML output?</p>
  
  <pre><code>---
  title: "Here is the title"
  output: html_document
  ---
  
  ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
  knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
  ```
  
  ## R Markdown
  
  FIRST PARAGRAPH This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents. For more details on using R Markdown see &lt;http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com&gt;.
  
  SECOND PARAGRAPH you click the **Knit** button a document will be generated that includes both content as well as the output of any embedded R code chunks within the document. You can embed an R code chunk like this:
  </code></pre>