In a larger report compiled with bookdown
I used several kableExtra
tables which included LaTex commands
(e.g., to add italics, bullets to create a listing, and manually-added footnotes within the table).
When I copy the tables in a LaTex beamer presentation
generated with rmarkdown::beamer_presentation
, compilation unfortunately fails.
How to twist the kableExtra
tables to include the LaTex commands
?
---
title: "MWE"
subtitle: "Beamer presentation with R-markdown"
author: "Donald Duck"
institute: "some place"
date: "`r format(Sys.time(), '%B %d, %Y')`"
output:
bookdown::pdf_book:
base_format: rmarkdown::beamer_presentation
theme: "THEMENAME"
latex_engine: xelatex
toc: false
slide_level: 2
---
(ref:footnote-a) Text for footnote a
(ref:footnote-b) Text for footnote b
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} <!-- increase line spacing for the table -->
```{r table-wLatex, echo=FALSE, fig.align="center", message=FALSE, warning=FALSE, out.width='66%'}
library(kableExtra)
library(dplyr)
# table with manually added footnotes within table
df <- data.frame(
col1 = c("Category 1", "Category 2"),
col2 = c(
"foo and \\emph{special foo}$^{a}$",
"bar and \n $\\boldsymbol{\\cdot}$ \\emph{random bar}$^{a}$\n $\\boldsymbol{\\cdot}$ \\emph{special bar}$^{b}$")
)
# header: add column names
names(df) <- c("Categories", "Description")
df %>%
mutate_all(linebreak) %>% # required for linebreaks to work
kable(
"latex",
# escape = FALSE, # needed to be able to include latex commands
booktabs=TRUE,
align = "l",
caption = "Caption Table with LaTex" # short caption for LoT
) %>%
kableExtra::footnote(
alphabet = c(
"(ref:footnote-a)",
"(ref:footnote-b)"
),
threeparttable = TRUE, # important! Else footnote runs beyond the table
footnote_as_chunk = TRUE, title_format = c("italic", "underline")
) %>%
column_spec(1, width = "11em") %>% # fix width column 1
column_spec(2, width = "27em") # fix width column 2
```
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1} <!-- reset row height/line spacing -->
Several LaTex
packages had to be loaded for kableExtra
table such that LaTex code can well be included inside.
To fix the column width, column_spec(1, width = "3cm")
is better specified in cm
instead of em
(for the previous specification, table ran beyond the slide).
---
title: "LaTex code inside a kable table in an rmarkdown::beamer_presentation"
output:
bookdown::pdf_book:
base_format: rmarkdown::beamer_presentation
latex_engine: xelatex
toc: false
slide_level: 2
header-includes:
- \usepackage{booktabs}
- \usepackage{longtable}
- \usepackage{array}
- \usepackage{multirow}
- \usepackage{wrapfig}
- \usepackage{float}
- \usepackage{colortbl}
- \usepackage{pdflscape}
- \usepackage{tabu}
- \usepackage{threeparttable}
- \usepackage{threeparttablex}
- \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
- \usepackage{makecell}
# - \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor} # clashes, as loaded by markdown anyway
---
(ref:footnote-a) Text for footnote a
(ref:footnote-b) Text for footnote b
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} <!-- increase line spacing for the table -->
```{r table-wLatex, echo=FALSE, fig.align="center", message=FALSE, warning=FALSE, out.width='30%'}
library(kableExtra)
library(dplyr)
# table with manually added footnotes within table
df <- data.frame(
col1 = c("Category 1", "Category 2"),
col2 = c(
"foo and \\emph{special foo}$^{a}$",
"bar and \n $\\boldsymbol{\\cdot}$ \\emph{random bar}$^{a}$\n $\\boldsymbol{\\cdot}$ \\emph{special bar}$^{b}$")
)
# header: add column names
names(df) <- c("Categories", "Description")
df %>%
mutate_all(linebreak) %>% # required for linebreaks to work
kable(
"latex",
escape = FALSE, # needed to be able to include latex commands
booktabs=TRUE,
align = "l",
caption = "Caption Table with LaTex" # short caption for LoT
) %>%
kableExtra::footnote(
alphabet = c(
"(ref:footnote-a)",
"(ref:footnote-b)"
),
threeparttable = TRUE, # important! Else footnote runs beyond the table
footnote_as_chunk = TRUE, title_format = c("italic", "underline")
) %>%
kable_styling( # for wide tables: scale them down to fit
full_width = F,
latex_options = c(
"scale_down"
)) %>%
column_spec(1, width = "3cm") %>% # fix width column 1
column_spec(2, width = "5cm") # fix width column 2
```
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1} <!-- reset row height/line spacing -->