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Justas Mundeikis
Justas Mundeikis

Reputation: 995

Rmarkdown setting the position of kable

I have the following issue, once knitting the Rmarkdown in Rstudio to PDF, my tables appear not in the position where they are in Rmarkdown file, but on the top of the page. I tried to add:

header-includes:
  - \usepackage{float}

and 

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(... fig.pos = "H")
```

But it didn't work. R and Rstudio run on Linux, the LaTeX engine is "pdflatex"

Fully reproducible example:

---
title: "Untitled"
output: pdf_document
header-includes:
  - \usepackage{float}
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE, message=FALSE, warning = FALSE, fig.align = "center", dev = "cairo_pdf", fig.pos = "H")
```

```{r}
library(kableExtra)
library(tidyverse)
```
## R Markdown

This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents. For more details on using R Markdown see <http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com>.

\newpage

## Including Plots

You can also embed plots, for example:

```{r pressure, echo=FALSE}
plot(pressure)
```

Note that the `echo = FALSE` parameter was added to the code chunk to prevent printing of the R code that generated the plot.

```{r}    
kable(cars %>% filter(cars$speed>=23), caption = "Speed vs distance")
```

Upvotes: 30

Views: 38277

Answers (3)

claudius
claudius

Reputation: 1005

To fix the table position in your latex document, you don't need include header options nor set opts_chunk configs. To do that you should specify the latex_options as HOLD_position by adding the kable_styling() function in the kable [1].

So the last chunk will be:

```{r}    
kable(cars %>% filter(cars$speed>=23), caption = "Speed vs distance") %>%
  kable_styling(latex_options = "hold_position")
```

Upvotes: 12

David Paul Moore
David Paul Moore

Reputation: 31

An alternative approach for setting the position of a kable object for R Markdown Latex or Beamer output would be to include the table in a "textblock" environment, as posted here.

The YAML would include:

header-includes:
- \usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}
  \setlength{\TPHorizModule}{1mm}
  \setlength{\TPVertModule}{1mm}

The R code chunk (preceded and followed by the latex code for the "textblock") would look like:

\begin{textblock}{}(21.5, 51.5)
\footnotesize
```{r}    
kable(cars %>% filter(cars$speed>=23), caption = "Speed vs distance") 
```
\end{textblock}

This approach allows for a more fine tuned positioning of the kable output on the page, or beamer slide.

Upvotes: 2

GaelS
GaelS

Reputation: 700

You can replace "hold_position" from claudius answer with "HOLD_position":

```{r}    
kable(cars %>% filter(cars$speed>=23), caption = "Speed vs distance") %>%
  kable_styling(latex_options = "HOLD_position")
```

As mentionned in the kableExtra package:

if you find hold_position is not powerful enough to literally PIN your table in the exact position, you may want to use HOLD_position, which is a more powerful version of this feature. For those who are familiar with TeX, hold_position uses[!h] and HOLD_position uses [H] and the float package.

ref: https://haozhu233.github.io/kableExtra/awesome_table_in_pdf.pdf

You may also want to control figure position by adding fig.pos='H' to the figure chunk header.

Upvotes: 45

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