Add line break in print statement in R

Question

When using the print function to print to the screen, I would like one line to appear on one line, and the next line to be on a second line.

with this line

print( 
    paste( 
        "hey I want this to be line one", "and this to be line two", "would be great if you could help"
    )
)

I want this to print

[1] "hey I want this to be line one

[2] and this to be line two would be great if you could help"

You could use `c()` instead of `paste()` – Rich Scriven Jun 06 '14 at 00:29 — Rich Scriven, Jun 06 '14 at 00:29

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '14 at 00:25

I assume your sample output should actually be three lines instead of two... You should use cat instead of print, and add sep="\n" to the paste statement:

 cat(paste("hey I want this to be line one", 
           "and this to be line two", 
           "would be great if you could help" ,sep="\n"))

Output:

hey I want this to be line one
and this to be line two
would be great if you could help

Add line break in print statement in R

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