diff --git a/inst/dev/benchmark-compare.R b/inst/dev/benchmark-compare.R
index dfc6f4bb2..8b6242ac4 100644
--- a/inst/dev/benchmark-compare.R
+++ b/inst/dev/benchmark-compare.R
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ if (any(changes$trend != "no change")) {
   cat(knitr::kable(
     format_output, align = "lrrrrr",
     caption = "Benchmarking results (mean time in seconds)."
-  ))
+  ), sep = "\n")
   cat("\n")
   if (length(output_lines) > 0) {
     cat(paste(output_lines, collapse = "\n"))