newline or line breaks in rnotebook inline chunks

Question

How to make newlines in inline chunks ? Rendering a word document

---
title: "R Notebook"
output: word_document
---

Cat `r cat("not \n working")`

writeLines `r writeLines("not \n working")`

print `r print("not \n working")`

capture.output + cat `r capture.output(cat("not \n working"))`

```{r results='asis'}
cat("not \n working")
```

EDIT Solution based on shafee and gaut's answers uses triple escape character \

---
title: "R Notebook"
output: word_document
---

Text `r "Simple \\\n is \\\n better"`

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 05 '22 at 17:25

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You can use combine_words from {knitr} to do this in inline code.

`r knitr::combine_words(c("it is", "working"), sep = "\\\n", and = "")`

answered Aug 05 '22 at 17:25

shafee

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Thanks a lot ! I chose an even simpler way based on your answer : `r "it is\\\nworking"`. Would there be an advantage of using `combine_words()` instead ? – Samuel Allain Aug 08 '22 at 07:05
For your case?! I don't think so! – shafee Aug 08 '22 at 07:46
Ok thanks ! do you know a way to make hard returns instead of soft returns when rendering a word document ? – Samuel Allain Aug 08 '22 at 13:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 05 '22 at 16:28

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We can use:

```{r results='asis'}

cat(paste("it is", "\\\n", "working"))

```

answered Aug 05 '22 at 16:28

gaut

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Thanks a lot ! I chose an even simpler way based on your answer : `r "it is\\\nworking"` – Samuel Allain Aug 08 '22 at 07:05

newline or line breaks in rnotebook inline chunks

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