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latex - R: why kable doesn't print inside a for loop?

I'm working a report with rmarkdown and latex. I need to print a group of tables using knitr::kable, but the don't print when inside a for loop.

This is my code:

---
title: "project title"
author: "Mr. Author"
date: "2016-08-30"
output: 
  pdf_document: 
    latex_engine: xelatex
bibliography: biblio.bib
header-includes:
   - usepackage{tcolorbox}
---

Text and chunks that run ok.

```{r loadLibraries}
require(data.table)
require(knitr)
```

## Try to print a group of tables from split

```{r results = "asis"}
t1 <- data.table(a = sample(letters, 10, T), b = sample(LETTERS[1:3], 10, T))
t2 <- split(t1, t1$b)

for (i in 1:length(t2)){
    kable(t2[[i]], col.names = c("A", "B"))
}
```

It doesn't matter if I use results = "asis" or if I omit it altogether, nothing prints to the document.

I've tried enclosing the kable call within a print call (print(kable(t2[[i]]...), and it successfully prints the output to the document, but the format is the same format as a standard R prompt (preceded by ##, for example), which is rather ugly.

How can I display the tables, other than manually?

### EDIT ###

Some answerers have redirected me to R knitr print in a loop as a duplicate answer. It's not, because as I stated in the previous paragraph, this effectively prints the table, but the format is not the expected one. The accepted answer (and related github thread) really solved the problem.

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This question is addressed here: https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/886

All you need is a line break after each print call

---
title: "project title"
author: "Mr. Author"
date: "2016-08-30"
output: 
  pdf_document: 
    latex_engine: xelatex
    bibliography: biblio.bib
    header-includes:
       - usepackage{tcolorbox}
---

Text and chunks that run ok.

```{r loadLibraries}
require(data.table)
require(knitr)
```

```{r results = "asis"}
t1 <- data.table(a = sample(letters, 10, T), b = sample(LETTERS[1:3], 10, T))
t2 <- split(t1, t1$b)

for (i in 1:length(t2)){
    print(kable(t2[[i]], col.names = c("A", "B")))
    cat("
")
}
```

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