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Renaming table's column name with Greek letters in kable

I am creating presentation using R Markdown with PDF (Beamer) as output. I am using library kableExtra for some formatting.

The following code gives me the expected result

library(knitr)
# library(kableExtra)

# create data frame
df <- data.frame(mean = c(1,2,3), beta = c(5,6,7))

# print data frame to slide
knitr::kable(df,
  col.names = c("mean", "$\\beta_t$"))

However, when I use library(kableExtra) as in code below, the printed PDF show $\beta_t$ instead of the Greek letter beta.

library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)

# create data frame
df <- data.frame(mean = c(1,2,3), beta = c(5,6,7))

# print data frame to slide
knitr::kable(df,
  col.names = c("mean", "$\\beta_t$"))

Is there any good way to rename the column name to Greek letter while using library(kableExtra)?

Solution

  • Use escape = FALSE in the call to kable():

    # print data frame to slide
knitr::kable(df,
  col.names = c("mean", "$\\beta_t$"),
  escape = FALSE)

    This produces

    screenshot

    It looks a little nicer using booktabs = TRUE:

    screenshot

    but you'll need to add

    header-includes:
- \usepackage{booktabs}

    to the document YAML since you're using beamer.