Search code examples
latexr-markdownquartoflextablegt

Using list of tables and list of figures in Quarto to reference output of code chunks

I want to generate a PDF thesis document that has a list of tables and a list of figures at the beginning of the Quarto document. It does not seem to be a straightforward way to do it. I saw this post, which gives some guidance.

My question: Is there a way to automatically add tables (from gt, gtsummary, or flextable) generated from code chunks to the list of tables? Same question regarding plots.

Solution

  • Let's summarize it. To have list of tables / list of figures in the document we have to add lof: true and/or lot: true in format section of the header. It corresponds to LaTeX \listoftables, \listoffigures macros. To have the entries in the list, the table/figure has to have caption. For those generated tables/plots generated with r/python, we can use fig-cap and tbl-cap options of chunks.

    ---
title: "Untitled"
format: 
  pdf:
    lof: true
    lot: true
---

## Quarto

```{r}
plot(1)
```

```{r}
#| fig-cap: Figure caption

plot(2)
```

```{r}
#| fig-cap: Another plot

plot(3, pch = 3)
```

And the same for tables

```{r}
#| echo: false
#| tbl-cap: Table caption

cars |>
  head() |>
  kableExtra::kbl() |> 
  kableExtra::kable_classic_2()
```

    Which produces desired output: