This function is called automatically by R whenever a tinytable object is anprinted to the console or in an HTML viewer pane.
# S3 method for tinytable
print(x, output = get_option("tinytable_print_output", default = NULL), ...)launch a browser window or cat() the table to console.
A data frame, data table, or tibble to be rendered as a table.
format in which a Tiny Table is printed: NULL or one of "latex", "markdown", "html", "typst", "dataframe", "tabulator". If NULL, the output is chosen based on these rules:
When called from a script in non-interactive mode, the default is "markdown" (interactive() == FALSE).
When called interactively in RStudio, the default is to display an HTML table in the viewer pane.
When called interactively in another development environment, the default is "markdown".
The default print output can be changed for an entire R session by calling: options(tinytable_print_output = "html")
The default print output can be changed for a single tinytable object by modifying the output S4 slot.
Other arguments are ignored.
When printing to HTML in interactive() mode, a temporary file is created and viewer() is called to preview the file with the local browser (ex: Firefox or Chrome). The temporary file is then automatically cleaned up. On some operating systems, like some Linux distributions, browser do not have read access to the /tmp/ directory. In such cases, users can specify a custom location to store temporary HTML files. Note that this prevents tinytable from automatically cleaning up temporary files automatically.
options(tinytable_tempdir = "/home/username/temp_directory")