print.tinytable: Print, display, or convert a tinytable object

In tinytable: Simple and Configurable Tables in 'HTML', 'LaTeX', 'Markdown', 'Word', 'PNG', 'PDF', and 'Typst' Formats

Print, display, or convert a tinytable object

Description

This function is called automatically by R whenever a tinytable object is anprinted to the console or in an HTML viewer pane.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'tinytable'
print(x, output = get_option("tinytable_print_output", default = NULL), ...)

Arguments

x	A data frame, data table, or tibble to be rendered as a table.
output	Format in which a Tiny Table is printed. One of: NULL: automatically chosen based on context (see below). "html": HTML table. In interactive mode, displayed in the viewer pane. "latex": LaTeX table using tabularray. "markdown": plain text markdown table. "typst": Typst table. "dataframe": formatted data frame. "tabulator": interactive HTML table using Tabulator.js. "knitr": PNG screenshot via webshot2, returned through knitr::include_graphics(). Useful for embedding styled tables in Rmarkdown or Quarto documents. Requires the webshot2 package. "raster": PNG screenshot via webshot2, drawn on the graphics device via grid::grid.raster(). Useful for pkgdown ⁠@examples⁠ and README files, where the plot is captured as an image. Requires the webshot2 and png packages. For README.Rmd files rendered with rmarkdown::render(), set knitr::opts_chunk$set(fig.path = "man/figures/README-") in a setup chunk so that pkgdown copies the images correctly. When output is NULL, the format is chosen automatically: When called from a script in non-interactive mode, the default is "markdown" (interactive() == FALSE). When called interactively in RStudio, the default is to display an HTML table in the viewer pane. When called interactively in another development environment, the default is "markdown". The default print output can be changed for an entire R session by calling: options(tinytable_print_output = "html") The default print output can be changed for a single tinytable object by modifying the output S4 slot.
...	Other arguments are ignored.

Details

When printing to HTML in interactive() mode, a temporary file is created and viewer() is called to preview the file with the local browser (ex: Firefox or Chrome). The temporary file is then automatically cleaned up. On some operating systems, like some Linux distributions, browser do not have read access to the ⁠/tmp/⁠ directory. In such cases, users can specify a custom location to store temporary HTML files. Note that this prevents tinytable from automatically cleaning up temporary files automatically.

options(tinytable_tempdir = "/home/username/temp_directory")

Value

launch a browser window or cat() the table to console.

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