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newline or line breaks in rnotebook inline chunks

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"`
Solution

  • We can use:

    ```{r results='asis'}

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

```