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kableExtra is an R package that helps to build common complex tables (in both HTML and pdf) and manipulate table styles. Using the pipe %>% symbol one can add "layers" to a kable output to get a well-formatted table.

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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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kableExtra: Continued on Next Page for longtable

I am using kableExtra for longtable with the following code. library(knitr) library(kableExtra) long_dt <- rbind(mtcars, mtcars) kable( long_dt, format = "latex", longtable = T, booktabs = T, caption =…
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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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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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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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kableExtra column_spec width not working

I am creating tables that will be rendered using Rmarkdown to HTML. I am using kable and have been experimenting with kableExtra to add features to my tables. I am not able to get the width option in column_spec to work when applying it to all…
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R - kable() used in .Rmd does not show output in notebook

I just started using kableExtra library to make my tables look better in the PDF output. But when I use kable() function in R Notebook file, it does not show the output. Instead I see a large white space where the output should be. Here is a…
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Is it possible to remove horizontal lines in Kable kableextra with html option?

I am trying to create a table using kable/kableextra without showing the horizontal lines in the table except for the first row which is the row names. ``` {r echo=FALSE} library(knitr) library(kableExtra) options(knitr.kable.NA = '') dt <-…
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How to change the strip color on kableExtra

The color of the strips are very lite on Kable on Pdf output. So is there a way to change the color on kable_styling(latex_options = "striped")?
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How to force linebreaks in kableExtra functions with escape = FALSE?

In kableExtra >= 0.8.0, the canonical way to insert a linebreak into text piped into a table from a kableExtra function such as add_header_above or pack_rows is to add an \n directly. However, this appears not to work with the escape = FALSE…
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R kable/kableExtra, conditional formatting by percentage (with missing values)

I am using kable and kableExtra and want to display a table with columns of percentages (in format "95%"). I would also like to do conditional formatting of the cell backgrounds based on the percent value (with multiple colors and cut points). In…
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Save as_kable_extra (format = "latex") on file

I use as_kable_extra(table, format="latex"). This code gives me a chuck of latex codes, then I copy and paste then save it as a tex table. Can I save the latex code on R so that I can avoid copy and paste?
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R- How to add html formatting to a table that works with blastula?

Blastula appears to not respect the