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Create Tables In LaTeX, HTML, Markdown And ReStructuredText

A function from R knitr package by Yihui Xie.

This is a very simple table generator. It is simple by design. It is not intended to replace any other R packages for making tables.

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Is there a way to make a kable without lines/borders for pdf?

I'm working on a shiny-app that produces and sends a pdf-report, containing the wrangled data. The problem is that I can't get the table layout to look as the client want it to look. The client wants the tables to lack lines/borders except ontop of…
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table with long text, bullet points and specific table width

I want a table to have bullet points in one column and to have a specific table width (in order to be placed on one page when rendered to PDF). How can I achieve this in rmarkdown using one of the many packages out there? What I have tried and have…
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Citing within an RMarkdown table

I am attempting to create a table which has citations built into the table. Here is a visual of what I am trying to achieve. As far as I know you can only add footnotes in rowvars or colvars in kableExtra (love that package). # Create a dataframe…
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How to create table in rmarkdown using greek letters in column headers?

I am trying to create a table in rmarkdown with kable and kableExtra and I want to put greek letters in the add_header_above function. kable(a, format = "latex", booktabs = T, longtable = T) %>% kable_styling() %>% add_header_above(c("n",…
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Vertical align kable's column name

Suppose the next example: library(knitr) library(kableExtra) df <- data.frame(a = letters[1:10], b = 1:10) names(df) <- c("This is a looooooong title, I don't know how to handle this... Also, I'm trying to extend this title even more... This…
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kableExtra only works if there's another table in the presentation?

When I use kableExtra for a PDF output, the table renders beautifully, BUT gives an error if there isn't another, non-kable extra table in the program. Has anyone else seen this behavior? the file appears to knit fine, but then throws an error in…
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Changing column width in R's kable does not change width of headers

I am using kable to make tables of my data in RMarkdown. You can supposedly adjust column width using the column_spec command, however this seems to adjust only the columns of the data, itself, but does not also adjust the column width of my header…
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Use kableExtra's kbl() and save_kable() to export table as word table to word document?

Is there a way to export or knit a table directly to word-format in an R-script (instead of R-markdown)? knitr and kableExtra seem to provide a wide range of options to save tables, yet there is no option to export tables as actual word…
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Combine kableExtra tables with ggplot2 elements

I have a ggplot2 element and a KableExtra table. Is it possible to combine them into one object with patchwork, cowplot or any other package and print it in an rmarkdown document? If there's not a solution, is there any other table package, with…
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kableExtra won't compile with full_width and XeLaTeX

Having full_width = T in my kable function results in the error: ! You can't use `\relax' after \the. \tabu@elapsedtime ...optime {\the \pdfelapsedtime }\tabu@message {(tabu)\tab... But…
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R kable linebreak cutting off striped color

Below is a code example. My issue is that the background color for the rows with the linebreak are being cut short. Any idea how to fix this? I tried limiting the column width and that did the trick, but with other unwanted side effects such as…
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Format captions in kableExtra()

Is it possible to format captions in kableExtra? I would like to center and bold a caption for a table when knitting to HTML in RMarkdown. I have tried to wrap the table in a CSS div where the text was centered, but this did not produce the intended…
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R markdown: download a html table to an excel file

I have a R markdown where I built a table and I want to add the option to download the table to a excel file. kable(MyTable) %>% kable_styling(bootstrap_options = c("striped", "hover", "condensed", "responsive")) %>% scroll_box(width =…
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The following content of a .Rmd file: --- title: "Untitled" output: html_document: default --- ```{r cars} mtcars$am <- sprintf("(%s)", as.character(mtcars$am)) knitr::kable(mtcars, format = "html") ``` Will show ordered lists
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rmarkdown & kable/kableextra: Printing % symbol in Table when using escape = F

I want to create a table in a pdf-document using rmarkdwon and kable. In the header there has to be a linebreak, so to do so i need to set escape = F. The table itself contains percent-values as strings including the % symbol (for example: "13%").…
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