Multiple table versions for html, LaTeX, or other
I am really enjoying the power of bookdown to produce great documents that can be read as websites (i.e. html or gitbook output), pdf (generated via LaTeX), or other. However, when you start wanting to format your tables conflicts can occur causing all of some of the book to not render. Below I provide a quick solution.
The kableExtra package provides well documented and excellent features for formatting tables into whatever format you are generating.
This code snippet is what I use to generate to multiple formats simultaneously. Specifically, for my project I am writing an academic paper as a gitbook but I want pdf and docx versions available for collaborators and reviewers. Unfortuately, I have to create the table output three times, one for each type of document, but the results are excellent!
if (knitr::is_latex_output()) { ## Latex Version
knitr::kable(pw,
caption = "Pairwise t-test comparison of all the treatments.",
align = "c",
format = "latex",
booktabs = T) %>%
kable_styling(latex_options = c("striped", "scale_down"))
} else if (knitr::is_html_output()) { ## html version
knitr::kable(pw,
caption = "Pairwise t-test comparison of all the treatments.",
align = "c",
format = "html") %>%
kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped",
font_size = 8,
)
} else { ## Word version
knitr::kable(pw,
caption = "Pairwise t-test comparison of all the treatments.",
align = "c",
format = "markdown")
}
