Is there any way to break the raw tex passing of pandoc? I like to have a two column layout, this is possible using pure latex but it is not possible to include R then. The problem seems to be down to pandoc https://support.rstudio.com/hc/communities/public/questions/202717656-Can-we-have-columns-in-rmarkdown-beamer-presentations-

. Any solution or work around would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

 Michaela

Minimal non working example:
## Slide
 \begin{columns}
    \begin{column}{.5\linewidth}
      Nice Plot
    \end{column}
    \begin{column}{.5\linewidth}
```{r, echo=FALSE}
plot(cars)
```
    \end{column}
  \end{columns}