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Patrick
Patrick

Reputation: 1027

Kable not displaying tables properly

I have been trying to display tables in a document. When I use kable the output in the docx is not displayed as a table. I can use pander to generate the table properly but this is not optimal because I will not be able to generate captions.

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--- 
title: "My Title"
output:
  bookdown::word_document2:
    fig_caption: yes
    reference_docx: G:/My Drive/Projects/R15_Pipeline/R15Dir/styles/Brain_template.docx
  bookdown::pdf_document2:
    toc: no
link-citations: no
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
bibliography: G:/My Drive/ZoteroRPlugin/Report_references.bib
csl: G:/My Drive/ZoteroRPlugin/styles-master/dependent/brain.csl
---


```{r setup, include=FALSE, cache=FALSE, echo=FALSE}
#create a table
smoke <- matrix(c(51,43,22,92,28,21,68,22,9),ncol=3,byrow=TRUE)
colnames(smoke) <- c("High","Low","Middle")
rownames(smoke) <- c("current","former","never")
smoke <- as.data.frame(smoke)
```

Here is an example using pander where the table is displayed properly but no caption. For example Table \@ref(tab:table1)

```{r table1, echo = FALSE}
pander(smoke, booktabs=T, caption = "Descriptives per Group")
```

Here is an example using kable. Table \@ref(tab:table2) which does not work

```{r table2, echo = FALSE}
knitr::kable(smoke, format="markdown", caption = "Descriptives per Group")
```

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3302

Answers (1)

Patrick
Patrick

Reputation: 1027

Thanks for your help. I was able to locate the source of the error. Although I am not sure why it occurs. In my code I load data using the following code

pacman::p_load(apastats,kableExtra, grid, captioner, citr)
#devtools::install_github("haozhu233/kableExtra", force = T)
load("data/data.RData") #load the data from createTablePlots.R
load("data/data2.RData") #load the data from newStatsSigTables.R
load("data/tables.RData") #load the data from createTablePlots.R
load("data/TrialErrorsTables.RData") #load the data from newStatsSigTable.R
load("data/statsProj2.RData")

This code would cause the error as shown in the screenshot. After some trial and error this error seems to be a conflict with the kableExtra package. When I remove this package from the lines I am able to get the correct output. I have reported this as a bug on KableExtra's GitHub

Upvotes: 1

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