kable

From knitr v1.27 by Yihui Xie

Create tables in LaTeX, HTML, Markdown and reStructuredText

This is a very simple table generator. It is simple by design. It is not intended to replace any other R packages for making tables.

Usage

kable(
  x,
  format,
  digits = getOption("digits"),
  row.names = NA,
  col.names = NA,
  align,
  caption = NULL,
  label = NULL,
  format.args = list(),
  escape = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

x: An R object, typically a matrix or data frame.
format: A character string. Possible values are latex, html, markdown, pandoc, and rst; this will be automatically determined if the function is called within knitr; it can also be set in the global option knitr.table.format. If format is a function, it must return a character string.
digits: Maximum number of digits for numeric columns, passed to round(). This can also be a vector of length ncol(x), to set the number of digits for individual columns.
row.names: Logical: whether to include row names. By default, row names are included if rownames(x) is neither NULL nor identical to 1:nrow(x).
col.names: A character vector of column names to be used in the table.
align: Column alignment: a character vector consisting of 'l' (left), 'c' (center) and/or 'r' (right). By default or if align = NULL, numeric columns are right-aligned, and other columns are left-aligned. If length(align) == 1L, the string will be expanded to a vector of individual letters, e.g. 'clc' becomes c('c', 'l', 'c'), unless the output format is LaTeX.
caption: The table caption.
label: The table reference label. By default, the label is obtained from knitr::opts_current$get('label').
format.args: A list of arguments to be passed to format() to format table values, e.g. list(big.mark = ',').
escape: Boolean; whether to escape special characters when producing HTML or LaTeX tables. When escape = FALSE, you have to make sure that special characters will not trigger syntax errors in LaTeX or HTML.
...: Other arguments (see Examples).

Details

Missing values (NA) in the table are displayed as NA by default. If you want to display them with other characters, you can set the option knitr.kable.NA, e.g. options(knitr.kable.NA = '') to hide NA values.

Value

A character vector of the table source code.

Note

The tables for format = 'markdown' also work for Pandoc when the pipe_tables extension is enabled (this is the default behavior for Pandoc >= 1.10).

When using kable() as a top-level expression, you do not need to explicitly print() it due to R's automatic implicit printing. When it is wrapped inside other expressions (such as a for loop), you must explicitly print(kable(...)).

References

See https://github.com/yihui/knitr-examples/blob/master/091-knitr-table.Rnw for some examples in LaTeX, but they also apply to other document formats.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
kable(head(iris), format = "latex")
kable(head(iris), format = "html")
kable(head(iris), format = "latex", caption = "Title of the table")
kable(head(iris), format = "html", caption = "Title of the table")
# use the booktabs package
kable(mtcars, format = "latex", booktabs = TRUE)
# use the longtable package
kable(matrix(1000, ncol = 5), format = "latex", digits = 2, longtable = TRUE)
# change LaTeX default table environment
kable(head(iris), format = "latex", caption = "My table", table.envir = "table*")
# add some table attributes
kable(head(iris), format = "html", table.attr = "id=\"mytable\"")
# reST output
kable(head(mtcars), format = "rst")
# no row names
kable(head(mtcars), format = "rst", row.names = FALSE)
# R Markdown/Github Markdown tables
kable(head(mtcars[, 1:5]), format = "markdown")
# no inner padding
kable(head(mtcars), format = "markdown", padding = 0)
# more padding
kable(head(mtcars), format = "markdown", padding = 2)
# Pandoc tables
kable(head(mtcars), format = "pandoc", caption = "Title of the table")
# format numbers using , as decimal point, and ' as thousands separator
x = as.data.frame(matrix(rnorm(60, 1e+06, 10000), 10))
kable(x, format.args = list(decimal.mark = ",", big.mark = "'"))
# save the value
x = kable(mtcars, format = "html")
cat(x, sep = "\n")
# can also set options(knitr.table.format = 'html') so that the output is HTML
# }

Documentation reproduced from package knitr, version 1.27, License: GPL

Community examples

kkk1452@naver.com at Jun 14, 2019 knitr v1.23

kable(head(mtcars), format = "rst", row.names = FALSE)