alternate row color with knitr:kable in R Markdown

Question

I want to display alternating row colors using knitr:kablein R Markdown rendering PDF with xelatex. E.g. knitr::kable(mtcars,format="markdown")

Answer 1

You can do it with kableExtra

knitr::kable(mtcars, "html") %>%
  kable_styling("striped")

or

knitr::kable(mtcars, "latex") %>%
  kable_styling(latex_options = "striped")