[R] Sweave - print \n ?

[Abhijit Dasgupta]

you haven't escaped the \ for the \n, I think. Your line should be
cat("\\hline \\n"). You did escape the \ for hline, though.

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Werner Wernersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is probably quite stupid but I have no clue
> what's wrong. Let's say I write the function
> hline <- function() {
>   cat("\\hline \n") 
> }
> and call hline() from within a Sweave chunk. Why is
> there no carriage return after the \hline in the
> resulting tex file? 
>
> if I call hline() hline() in the chunk, then I get
> \hline \hline 
> in the tex code without a linebreak in between.
>
> Thanks for any hints,
>   Werner
>
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