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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

10,524

Version

6.0.1

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Issues

Pull Requests

Stars

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Repository

https://github.com/hughjonesd/huxtable

Homepage

https://hughjonesd.github.io/huxtable/

Maintainer

David Hugh-Jones

Last Published

September 15th, 2026

Functions in huxtable (6.0.1)

Position the table's caption

Map cell contents to cell properties using a function or scale

Combine rows or columns

Set the table caption

description-colors

Description of color format

Create a huxtable to display model output

mutate.huxtable

Use dplyr verbs with huxtable objects

hux_prop_params

Shared documentation for huxtable property functions:

Set the table height

escape_contents

Escape or unescape text in cells

Set the width of table columns

Subset a huxtable

left_border_color

Set border colors

Mark rows or columns as headers

column_to_header

Convert a column to header rows

Set the font for cell text

Frequently Asked Questions, including how to get help

Changes to the huxtable package

Make text larger or smaller

Map cell contents to properties using case_when

Create a huxtable

Insert a row or column

LaTeX commands used by huxtables

Default CSS for HTML huxtables

Set the position of the table float in LaTeX

Format numbers as percent

Set notes referenced from cells

mapping-functions

How to set cell properties variably by cell contents

Mapping parameters

Set the symbols used for cell note references

Set how numbers are formatted in cells

Rotate text within cells

Set the height of table rows

span-overwrites-shadows

Section about colspan/rowspan

Extend cells over multiple rows and/or columns

knit_print.huxtable

Print a huxtable within knitr

Change how NA values are printed

Set a table label for external referencing

merge_repeated_rows

Merge repeated rows into multirow cells

Merge cells across rows or down columns

Objects exported from other packages

Create a border object

Get thickness of a brdr() object

huxtable-package

Quick introduction to huxtable

huxtable-options

Package options

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

Map cells matching a string or regex to cell properties

Merge a range of cells

Set cell properties by row or column

Return the last n rows or columns

Description for fmt_ functions

Set background color stripes

Use prettyNum() to format numbers

Transpose a huxtable

guess_knitr_output_format

Guess knitr output format

format.rtfFCTables

Format rtfFCTables

Create RTF font and color tables

Different ways to select rows and columns

Create LaTeX representing a huxtable

report_latex_dependencies

Manage LaTeX dependencies for huxtables

Create Markdown representing a huxtable

Escape text for various formats

Set the table's position with respect to surrounding content

Replace a subset of a brdr object

table_background_color

Set the table background color

style-functions

Set multiple properties on headers

Note about markdown vs. print_md()

Interpret cell content as markdown

Format and print huxtables using a default method

knit_print.data.frame

Print data frames in knitr using huxtable

Prices of 3 jams

Set left, right, top and bottom properties

Set the color of text in cells

table_environment

Set the "table" environment in LaTeX

Change a model's tidy output

restack-across-down

Restack huxtables across/down the page

Set borders and padding around a rectangle of cells

print.rtfFCTables

Print rtfFCTables

Create HTML representing a huxtable

Set cell contents

Set notes beneath a table

Theme a huxtable

Create Typst markup representing a huxtable

tabular_environment

Set the table's tabular environment in LaTeX

Set the vertical alignment of cell content

Set the table width

split-across-down

Split a huxtable into multiple huxtables

Wrap cell content over multiple lines

Return every n row or column numbers

set_default_properties

Default huxtable properties

Create RTF representing a huxtable

Print a huxtable on screen

set_markdown_contents

Set cell contents, interpreting them as markdown

Convert a huxtable for Word/Powerpoint

Insert one huxtable into another

background_color

Set cell background color

Add a row with a footnote (compatibility function)

Convert a huxtable for Excel

Set the horizontal alignment of cell content

Add column or row names

Convert objects to huxtables

Make cell text bold or italic

left_border_style

Set border styles

Map numeric ranges to cell properties

Map numeric quantiles to cell properties

Allow a table to break across pages

Map numeric cell contents smoothly to colors

Set the width of the table caption

Map specific cell values to cell properties