Kable_styling(bootstrap_options = 'striped', full_width = F, position = 'float_right') Kable_styling(bootstrap_options = 'striped', full_width = F, position = 'left')īecides these three common options, you can also wrap text around the table using the float-left or float-right options. You can choose to align the table to center, left or right side of the page kbl(dt) %>% Table Position only matters when the table doesn’t have full_width. Kable_styling(bootstrap_options = c('striped', 'hover', 'condensed', 'responsive')) Please resize your window to see the result. However, on a small screen like phone, they are horizontally scrollable. Tables with option responsive looks the same with others on a large screen. Kable_styling(bootstrap_options = c('striped', 'hover', 'condensed')) The option condensed can also be handy in many cases when you don’t want your table to be too large. Kable_styling(bootstrap_options = c('striped', 'hover')) All of these options are available here.įor example, to add striped lines (alternative row colors) to your table and you want to highlight the hovered row, you can simply type: kbl(dt) %>% If you are not familiar, no worries, you can take a look at their documentation site to get a sense of how they look like. If you are familiar with twitter bootstrap, you probably have already known its predefined classes, including striped, bordered, hover, condensed and responsive. Kable_classic(full_width = F, html_font = 'Cambria') Kbl(caption = 'Recreating booktabs style table') %>% The only difference is that bootstrap_options (as discussed in the next section) is replaced with lightable_options at the same location with only two choices striped and hover available. These functions are alternatives to kable_styling, which means that you can specify any additional formatting options in kable_styling in these functions too. Right now there are 6 of them: kable_paper, kable_classic, kable_classic_2, kable_minimal, kable_material and kable_material_dark. KableExtra also offers a few in-house alternative HTML table themes other than the default bootstrap theme. # If you don't define format here, you'll need put `format = 'html'` in every kable function. # If you are using kableExtra < 0.9.0, you are recommended to set a global option first. You can disable this behavior by setting options(to_format = FALSE) before you load kableExtra. I just hope you can enjoy a peace of mind in most of your time. You can manually set any format in kable() whenever you want. I’m still including the explanation above here in this vignette so you can understand what is going on behind the scene. You no longer need to manually set either the global option or the format option in each kable() function. Unless you are rendering a PDF, kableExtra will try to render a HTML table for you. Starting from kableExtra 0.9.0, when you load this package ( library(kableExtra)), it will automatically set up the global option ‘’ based on your current environment. You can also define a global option at the beginning using options( = 'html') so you don’t repeat the step everytime. As a result, when you have such a need, you should define format in kable() as either “html” or “latex”. For example, if you want to have a double-row header table, markdown just cannot provide you the functionality you need. However, markdown doesn’t support complex table. If you switch from HTML to pdf, you basically don’t need to change anything in your code. This is the most favorable approach to render most simple tables as it is format independent. When you are using kable(), if you don’t specify format, by default it will generate a markdown table and let pandoc handle the conversion from markdown to HTML/PDF. It’s here only for education purpose because it’s helpful to understand how kable works under the hood. In this doc, we will use kbl instead of kable. I encourage you start to use the new kbl function for all its convenience but the support for the original kable function is still there. As a result, it also solves an issue for multi-format R Markdown documents.

It also does auto-formatting check in every function call instead of relying on the global environement variable. Key Update: In the latest version of this package (1.2+), we provide a wrapper funciton kbl to the original kable function with detailed documentation of all the hidden html/latex options. Here we are using the first few columns and rows from dataset mtcars library(kableExtra)

Easy markdown tables