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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

9,421

Version

5.7.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

David Hugh-Jones

Last Published

August 18th, 2025

Functions in huxtable (5.7.0)

mutate.huxtable

Use dplyr verbs with huxtable objects

Set cell properties by row or column

Set the width of the table caption

description-colors

Description of color format

Position the table's caption

Combine rows or columns

column_to_header

Convert a column to header rows

Map specific cell values to cell properties

Set the table caption

Set the width of table columns

escape_contents

Escape or unescape text in cells

Subset a huxtable

Use prettyNum() to format numbers

Format numbers as percent

Mark rows or columns as headers

Return the last n rows or columns

Set the font for cell text

Make text larger or smaller

guess_knitr_output_format

Guess knitr output format

Description for fmt_ functions

Create a huxtable to display model output

huxtable-options

Package options

huxtable-package

Quick introduction to huxtable

Insert a row or column

Set the table height

Frequently Asked Questions, including how to get help

Create a huxtable

Changes to the huxtable package

hux_prop_params

Shared documentation for huxtable property functions:

Set the position of the table float in LaTeX

mapping-functions

How to set cell properties variably by cell contents

Merge cells across rows or down columns

Interpret cell content as markdown

knit_print.data.frame

Print data frames in knitr using huxtable

Prices of 3 jams

Note about markdown vs. print_md()

knit_print.huxtable

Print a huxtable within knitr

Set a table label for external referencing

Mapping parameters

merge_repeated_rows

Merge repeated rows into multirow cells

Change how NA values are printed

Set the table's position with respect to surrounding content

Set how numbers are formatted in cells

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

Format and print huxtables using a default method

report_latex_dependencies

Manage LaTeX dependencies for huxtables

Objects exported from other packages

Merge a range of cells

Set borders and padding around a rectangle of cells

Set cell contents

Set the height of table rows

Different ways to select rows and columns

set_default_properties

Default huxtable properties

restack-across-down

Restack huxtables across/down the page

Set left, right, top and bottom properties

Create RTF font and color tables

Rotate text within cells

Escape text for various formats

table_environment

Set the "table" environment in LaTeX

Extend cells over multiple rows and/or columns

Transpose a huxtable

span-overwrites-shadows

Section about colspan/rowspan

set_markdown_contents

Set cell contents, interpreting them as markdown

Set background color stripes

Return every n row or column numbers

split-across-down

Split a huxtable into multiple huxtables

style-functions

Set multiple properties on headers

Replace a subset of a brdr object

Change a model's tidy output

Theme a huxtable

Create Markdown representing a huxtable

Print a huxtable on screen

Create HTML representing a huxtable

Create Typst markup representing a huxtable

tabular_environment

Set the table's tabular environment in LaTeX

Set the color of text in cells

Wrap cell content over multiple lines

Create RTF representing a huxtable

Create LaTeX representing a huxtable

Set the vertical alignment of cell content

Set the table width

Insert one huxtable into another

Convert objects to huxtables

Add a row with a footnote

Convert a huxtable for Excel

Add column or row names

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

left_border_color

Set border colors

left_border_style

Set border styles

Map cell contents to cell properties using a function or scale

Create a border object

Map numeric cell contents smoothly to colors

Map numeric ranges to cell properties

Map numeric quantiles to cell properties

Get thickness of a brdr() object

Map cells matching a string or regex to cell properties

Map cell contents to properties using case_when