Automatic printing of data.frames in R Markdown

[davidgohel]

Since version 0.6.10 it is possible to use flextable to render data.frame as flextable in R Markdown document.

All options are documented here:

https://ardata-fr.github.io/flextable-book/rendering.html#automatic-printing-of-data.frame-as-flextable

The easy way is to add a call to use_df_printer() from a knitr chunk:

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(flextable)
use_df_printer()

Then all data.frame will be printed as: