Rmd files include a metadata section (typically located at the top of the
file) that can specify (among other things) the title, author, and date of
the document. Metadata adheres to the YAML format
and is delimited by lines containing three dashes (---). Here is an
example metadata section:
---
title: "Crop Analysis Q3 2013"
author: Martha Smith
date: October 23rd, 2013
---
Note that the title field is quoted. This is because titles often
contained embedded colons (:) and colons followed by a space need to
be quoted in YAML.
When title, author, and date metadata is provided it's used to automatically create a title section within output documents. If you don't want this section included in your document then you should remove the corresponding metadata fields.
When generating PDF and Beamer output there are also a number of other
metadata fields that can be included to customize the appearance and theme
of PDF output. For more details see the documentation for
pdf_document and beamer_presentation.