Thanks for your comments! I think using just one backslash for \n is correct because otherwise I get a "\n" literally printed out in the generated .tex code. But what I'm trying to get is just a line break, thus that the .tex code continues on a new line from the point where I put the \n.
All the best, Werner --- Abhijit Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > you haven't escaped the \ for the \n, I think. Your > line should be > cat("\\hline \\n"). You did escape the \ for hline, > though. > > Abhijit Dasgupta, Ph.D > Assistant Professor | Division of Biostatistics > Dept of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | > Thomas Jefferson > University > 1015 Chestnut St | Suite M100 | Philadelphia PA > 19107 > Ph: (215) 503-9201 | Fax: (215) 503-3804 > adasgupt (at) mail (dot) jci (dot) tju (dot) edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The documents accompanying this transmission may > contain confidential > health or business information. This information is > intended for the use > of the individual or entity named above. If you have > received this > information in error, please notify the sender > immediately and arrange > for the return or destruction of these documents. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > 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 > > > > > > E-Mails jetzt auf Ihrem Handy. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > > > Lesen Sie Ihre E-Mails jetzt einfach von unterwegs. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.