In rstudio/gt: Easily Create Presentation-Ready Display Tables

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(gt)
library(tidyverse)

Create a table with footnotes in various cell types

# Input table
tbl <-
  dplyr::tribble(
    ~date,        ~rowname,  ~value_1,  ~value_2,
    "2018-02-10", "1",       20.4,      361.1,
    "2018-02-10", "2",       10.9,      743.3,
    "2018-02-10", "3",       34.6,      344.7,
    "2018-02-10", "4",        8.3,      342.3,
    "2018-02-11", "5",       28.3,      234.9,
    "2018-02-11", "6",       75.5,      190.9,
    "2018-02-11", "7",       63.1,        2.3,
    "2018-02-11", "8",       25.8,      184.3,
    "2018-02-11", "9",        5.2,      197.2,
    "2018-02-11", "10",      55.3,      284.6
  )

gt(
  data = tbl,
  groupname_col = "date"
) %>%
  tab_header(title = "The Table Title", subtitle = "The subtitle.") %>%
  tab_spanner(
    label = "values",
    columns = starts_with("value")
  ) %>%
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = "This is an even smaller number.",
    locations = cells_body(columns = value_1, rows = 9)
  ) %>%
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = "This is a small number.",
    locations = cells_body(columns = value_1, rows = 4)
  ) %>%
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = "First data cell.",
    locations = cells_body(columns = "value_1", rows = 1)
  ) %>%
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = "The first row group",
    locations = cells_row_groups(groups = ends_with("10"))
  ) %>%
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = "Two sets of values",
    locations = cells_column_spanners(spanners = starts_with("val"))
  ) %>%
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = "A stub cell.",
    locations = cells_stub(rows = 1)
  ) %>%
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = md("`value_1` is the first column of values."),
    locations = cells_column_labels(columns = value_1)
  ) %>%
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = md("The `title` can get a footnote."),
    locations = cells_title(groups = "title")
  ) %>%
  tab_footnote(
    footnote = md("The `subtitle` can likewise get a footnote."),
    locations = cells_title(groups = "subtitle")
  )