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How can I convert a html table in Rmarkdown into Latex in order to output in a pdf?

I'm working on an RMarkdown pdf document and am trying to convert a table formatted in html using the FlexTable object of the RepoRters package and want to convert it into latex so that I can ouput the table into a pdf.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks! Rafael

Solution

  • This is an example that works on my machine. Be sure to include the header-includes block in the YAML content. 

    ---
title: "lazyWeave Example"
output: pdf_document
header-includes:
   - \usepackage{xcolor}
   - \usepackage{graphicx}
   - \usepackage{colortbl}
---

After running `install.packages("lazyWeave")` the following should produce the desired table.

```{r}
library(lazyWeave)
options(lazyReportFormat = "latex")
```

```{r, results='asis'}
lazy.matrix(mtcars[1:10, ],
            rcol = c(TRUE, FALSE),
            usecol = "lightgray")
```