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R markdown color working one machine but not another

Hi I'm running R studio on windows trying to generate a table in Markdown using kableExtra. Recently I notice that colors are working on one of my machine and not another.

library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)
library(Vennerable)


kable(cars, format = "latex", booktabs = T, caption = "Demo Table") %>%
  kable_styling(full_width = F)  %>%
  column_spec(1:1, italic = T, color = "black", background = "yellow") %>%
  column_spec(2, bold = T, border_right = T, background = "SpringGreen")

so this runs flawless on one of my pc but in another it give this error. 

! Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `SpringGreen'.

I'm not sure of any particular reason why this is so. Anyone have a clue? thanks.

Solution

  • I just added HTML hex color code support to the dev version of kableExtra. If you are willing to use the dev ver, you can do things like. 

    kable(cars, format = "latex", booktabs = T, caption = "Demo Table") %>%
  kable_styling(full_width = F)  %>%
  column_spec(1:1, italic = T, color = "black", background = "yellow") %>%
  column_spec(2, bold = T, border_right = T, background = "#00FF7F")

    (I found the hex code for springgreen from http://latexcolor.com/)