mdTable: Markdown tables

In Pmisc: Various Utilities for knitr and inla

Markdown tables

Description

Markdown tables with pandoc-crossref support

Usage

mdTable(x, col.just = "r", guessGroup = FALSE, ..., mdToTex = "auto")

Arguments

x	a matrix or data frame
col.just	horizontal justification of text in cells
guessGroup	attempt to guess cgroup and rgroup, for reshape2 output
...	other arguments for latex, htmlTable or kable.
mdToTex	if FALSE convert to markdown table, return x otherwise

Details

latex is called if mdToTex is TRUE. Otherwise, htmlTable is called if arguments such as cgroup are present and kable is called to produce a markdown table.

Captions with labels suitable for pandoc-crossref are added. If not provided, the label is tbl: followed by the chunk label.

When mdToTex is 'auto' (the default), it is set to any(commandArgs()=='mdToTex', na.rm=TRUE)

Value

character string which knitr prints 'asis'

Examples

mytable = as.data.frame(matrix(runif(6),,3))
names(mytable) = month.name[1:ncol(mytable)]

cat(mdTable(x=mytable, digits=3,
  caption = 'the table', caption.loc='bottom',
mdToTex=FALSE))

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