Remove chapter headings in Rmarkdown for PDF reports-CodePudding

I am aware that there are already an infinite number of entries here about the YAML header in rmarkdown. However, I have not yet been able to find an answer to the following question:

I need:

a PDF
a title page
the table of contents starting on the second page
a page numbering starting at the table of contents
numbered sections
no automatic chapter numbering

I would like to do this without LateX code, bookdown or the import of any text files. Except for the last point, this seems to work with documentclass: report. Unfortunately I can't get rid of the chapters. Is there no pure rmarkdown YAML header solution for this?

---
title: The Force                                                                      
subtitle: May it be with you                                                                    
author: "Obi-Wan Kenobi"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: 
  pdf_document:
    toc: yes
    toc_depth: 3
    number_sections: true
documentclass: report
---
    
# Introduction
## Sub
### SubSub

# Methods
## Sub
### SubSub

CodePudding user response：

We can use

CodePudding user response：

If your only reason to use the report class is the page break before the table of contents, you could easily add it to the default class article:

---
title: The Force                                                                      
subtitle: May it be with you                                                                    
author: "Obi-Wan Kenobi"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: 
  pdf_document:
    keep_tex: true
    toc: yes
    toc_depth: 3
    number_sections: true
header-includes:
  - \pretocmd{\tableofcontents}{\clearpage}{}{}
  - \apptocmd{\tableofcontents}{\clearpage}{}{}
---
    
# Introduction
## Sub
### SubSub

# Methods
## Sub
### SubSub