[R] can I add line breaks to the paste() function?

Jeremy Miles jeremy.miles at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 22:42:15 CEST 2010


Try using cat instead.  Then "\n" is the new line character.

E.g.
 cat("1st line\n2nd line\n")

Jeremy




On 30 September 2010 13:30, David LeBauer <dlebauer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can I add a line break to the paste() function to return the following:
>
> 'this is the first line'
> 'this is the second line'
>
> instead of
> 'this is the first line this is the second line'
>
> ?
>
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