/code></pre>
</div>
<div id="line-breaks" class="section level2">
<h2><span class="header-section-number">21.8</span> Line Breaks</h2>
<p>The line breaks in a dump file are required to be consistent with the
way R reads in data. Both of the following declarations are legal.</p>
<pre><code>y &lt;- 2
y &lt;-
3</code></pre>
<p>Also following R, breaking before the assignment arrow are not
allowed, so the following is invalid.</p>
<pre><code>y
&lt;- 2 # Syntax Error</code></pre>
<p>Lines may also be broken in t