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How to export htmlTable from the viewer to a word document in R

I'm working with the htmlTable function. While the table renders perfectly in the R studio viewer, I am unable to save, copy and paste, or screenshot it, such that it looks equally nice in the word document I am writing. I was wondering if there was a way for me to export or save the image, such that the table show up just as nice in the word document.

Here is an example table.

output <- 
  matrix(paste("Example", LETTERS[1:16]), 
         ncol=4, byrow = TRUE)

library(htmlTable)
htmlTable(output)
Solution

  • You can display your table as grid graphics using grid.table function from gridExtra library. And save it as image using ggsave function from ggplot library.

    library(ggplot2)
library(gridExtra)

ggsave(grid.table(output), filename = "~DirectoryName/imageName.png")