kable whitespace when writing to docx

Question

I can't quite figure out how to get some whitespace into the cells of a table when writing to word. I hate word but unfortunately, I have to use it.

This is essentially what I hoped would work:

---
title: "Untitled"
output: word_document
---

```{r setup, include=TRUE}
library('magrittr')
tibble::tibble(
  wowie = c('A', '   B', '\tC')
) %>% 
  knitr::kable(
    format = 'markdown',
    escape = TRUE
  )

```

But instead we just get all this whitespace removed. Any suggestions on how to indent specific cells a bit?

Thanks

Answer 1

Any suggestions on how to indent specific cells a bit?

  (non-breaking space),   (en space) and   (em space) are used in HTML and word processing to create multiple spaces and can be combined together.

```{r setup, include=TRUE}
library('magrittr')
tibble::tibble(
  wowie = c('A', 
            ' B',           # add one space
            ' C',           # add two spaces 
            ' D',           # add four spaces
            '    F')   # add more spaces (combined together)
) %>% 
  knitr::kable(
    format = 'markdown',
    escape = TRUE
  )

```

Output: