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Huxtable is an R package to create styled tables in multiple output formats, with a friendly, modern interface. Features include:

Control over text styling, number format, background colour, borders, padding and alignment.
Table cells can span multiple rows and/or columns.
Table manipulation via common dplyr functions.
Automatic formatting for rmarkdown and quarto documents.
huxreg() function for quick creation of regression tables.
Output to HTML, LaTeX, RTF, and Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint, using the officer and openxlsx packages.
Output to PDF, PNG and SVG formats using typst.
Quick one-liners to print data frames into any supported format.
Formatted table display in the R console, including borders, colour, and text styles.

Installing

To install from r-universe:

install.packages("huxtable", repos = c(
  "https://hughjonesd.r-universe.dev",
  "https://cloud.r-project.org"
))

To install from CRAN:

install.packages("huxtable")

To install the latest version from github:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("hughjonesd/huxtable")

Learning more

Check out the website, read the documentation or read the vignette.

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Install

install.packages('huxtable')

Monthly Downloads

21,022

Version

5.8.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

David Hugh-Jones

Last Published

November 7th, 2025

Functions in huxtable (5.8.0)

Get thickness of a brdr() object

Set the table caption

Combine rows or columns

Set the width of the table caption

column_to_header

Convert a column to header rows

Set the width of table columns

Description for fmt_ functions

Set the font for cell text

Use prettyNum() to format numbers

mutate.huxtable

Use dplyr verbs with huxtable objects

Return the last n rows or columns

Format numbers as percent

Make text larger or smaller

description-colors

Description of color format

escape_contents

Escape or unescape text in cells

Set cell properties by row or column

Map specific cell values to cell properties

Position the table's caption

Mark rows or columns as headers

guess_knitr_output_format

Guess knitr output format

Subset a huxtable

Frequently Asked Questions, including how to get help

Changes to the huxtable package

Create a huxtable to display model output

huxtable-package

Quick introduction to huxtable

Create a huxtable

Set the table height

hux_prop_params

Shared documentation for huxtable property functions:

Insert a row or column

huxtable-options

Package options

mapping-functions

How to set cell properties variably by cell contents

Set the position of the table float in LaTeX

knit_print.huxtable

Print a huxtable within knitr

Set a table label for external referencing

Note about markdown vs. print_md()

Merge cells across rows or down columns

Interpret cell content as markdown

Prices of 3 jams

Mapping parameters

knit_print.data.frame

Print data frames in knitr using huxtable

Format and print huxtables using a default method

Quickly print objects to a PDF, TeX, Typst, HTML, Microsoft Office or RTF document, or PNG or SVG images

Set the table's position with respect to surrounding content

Set borders and padding around a rectangle of cells

Set left, right, top and bottom properties

report_latex_dependencies

Manage LaTeX dependencies for huxtables

Objects exported from other packages

Set the height of table rows

Different ways to select rows and columns

Create RTF font and color tables

Set how numbers are formatted in cells

span-overwrites-shadows

Section about colspan/rowspan

Escape text for various formats

Change how NA values are printed

set_markdown_contents

Set cell contents, interpreting them as markdown

merge_repeated_rows

Merge repeated rows into multirow cells

Extend cells over multiple rows and/or columns

Merge a range of cells

Rotate text within cells

restack-across-down

Restack huxtables across/down the page

split-across-down

Split a huxtable into multiple huxtables

table_environment

Set the "table" environment in LaTeX

Transpose a huxtable

Return every n row or column numbers

Set background color stripes

Set cell contents

tabular_environment

Set the table's tabular environment in LaTeX

Create RTF representing a huxtable

Create Markdown representing a huxtable

Set the color of text in cells

Wrap cell content over multiple lines

Change a model's tidy output

Theme a huxtable

Create HTML representing a huxtable

Set the table width

Set the vertical alignment of cell content

Create LaTeX representing a huxtable

Create Typst markup representing a huxtable

Print a huxtable on screen

Replace a subset of a brdr object

style-functions

Set multiple properties on headers

set_default_properties

Default huxtable properties

Convert a huxtable for Word/Powerpoint

Make cell text bold or italic

background_color

Set cell background color

Set the horizontal alignment of cell content

Insert one huxtable into another

left_border_color

Set border colors

Add column or row names

Convert a huxtable for Excel

Convert objects to huxtables

Add a row with a footnote

Map cell contents to properties using case_when

Map numeric cell contents smoothly to colors

Map cells matching a string or regex to cell properties

Map numeric quantiles to cell properties

left_border_style

Set border styles

Map numeric ranges to cell properties

Create a border object

Map cell contents to cell properties using a function or scale