rmarkdown: define text boxes and alignment of text in boxes

Question

I am using R and rmarkdown to print formal letters.

I would like to format the sender and receiver addresses as in the image below

However in rmarkdown I have only managed to do the following

---
title: "Untitled"
output: pdf_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

\
This is where the reciepient goes  \hfill This is where the sender goes \
Address 1 \hfill Person \
Address 2 \hfill Department \
Address 3 \hfill Address 1 \
Address 3 \hfill Address 2 \
\
\raggedleft Address 3 \
Address 4 \
Address 5 \
Address 6 \
Telephone \
Fax \
Email \

Which leads to

However this is not why I need. I would like both boxes to have left alignment. Clearly /hfill is not the right use. How can I achieve defining these 2 boxes, their position, the text inside them and the alignment of the text?

I am knitting to PDF.

user_10576970 · Answer

Try this solution:

---
title: "Untitled"
output: pdf_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```       
\begin{tabular}[t]{@{}l}
This is where the reciepient goes \ 
Address 1 \
Address 2 \
Address 3 \
Address 3 \
\end{tabular}
\hfill
\begin{tabular}[t]{@{}l}
This is where the sender goes \  
Person \
Department \ 
Address 1 \ 
Address 2 \  
Address 3 \  
Address 4 \  
Address 5 \  
Address 6 \ 
Telephone \  
Fax \  
Email \
\end{tabular}

rmarkdown: define text boxes and alignment of text in boxes

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