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user1828605
user1828605

Reputation: 1735

Is it possible to generate superscript in HTML from a string variable using RMarkdown?

Is there a way to create superscript in rmarkdown in string?

If I have a string - acceleration", I want to include the unit next to like "acceleration (m/sec^2)" so that when it's rendered to HTML table column names, it should show up as

acceleration (m/sec2)

All column names should have their units next to the name, that's why I'm trying to do this.

I tried: 

names(vars) <- c("", ...,"acceleration m/sec \\textsuperscript{2}")
names(vars) <- c("", ...,"acceleration $m/sec^2$)

and other variations.. but didn't work. I keep getting error on these when I knitr. Is it possible, so that when I render it to html that it produces the superscript correctly?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 477

Answers (1)

joshpk
joshpk

Reputation: 769

The markdown notation is ^.^ and ~.~ to write super and subscripts.

testdata <- mtcars[1:2]
names(testdata) <- c("", "acceleration (m/sec^2^)")
knitr::kable(testdata)

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Upvotes: 2

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