Tables not formatted properly in PDFs

[seananderson]

Question from MS Teams:

I'm trying to figure out why my table doesn't look right when I render my pdf, but shows up correctly when I run the chunk of code.

[Example using knitr::kable() was pasted in the chat.]

[seananderson]

Chris: Use csas_table() instead and it should work fine.

Sean: Can you point us to some code or send it by email? It should look like this:

csasdown/inst/rmarkdown/templates/resdoc/skeleton/01-chap1.Rmd

Lines 188 to 191 in 1c405e5

	csas_table(max_delays,
	col.names = c("Airline", "Max Arrival Delay"),
	caption = "Maximum Delays by Airline"
	)

Thank you! That worked. Is there a list of arguments I can use with csas_table()? mostly I wanted to make the caption and table left aligned.

Sean: Whatever csas_table() does should be the formatting you need for the SR/resdoc/tech report document. I think the table is supposed to be centered and the caption left aligned, but that's just from looking at an SR now. You can look at ?csasdown::csas_table() Also, options can be passed to knitr::kable() via the ..., so look at that help tool. You can also use the kableExtra package to add options, but in general you shouldn't have to do too much beyond maybe change font size.

Chris: If you take a look at the tech report example doc, it has a lot of code to show examples of things you can do to make a more customized table. Like using kableExtra to add extra lines between groups.

Do you know where I can find the example?

Sean: You can change your R working directory to a new folder, run csasdown::draft("techreport"), and go look at the files, or you can look at the files here. All the .Rmd template files are here.