Major Change: Now when you load kableExtra package, it will automatically set format for kable() based on the working environment: only if you are using rmarkdown/r sweave to render PDFs, the default format will be set to “latex”. Otherwise it will be set to “html”.
Major Change: Now kableExtra will try to load the table section of the bootstrap stylesheet when you are rendering slidy_presentation & ioslides_presentation. You can also choose to load it manually via the global option kableExtra.html.bsTable.
Added support to the tables package. (Thank you @dmurdoch)
Added a save_kable function to save HTML table as independent HTML pages.
Added min_width and max_width to column_spec.
Added documentation about 100% width in scroll_box (Thank you @isteves!)
Added include_thead to column_spec. (#177)
Fixed a few bugs in linebreak (#167, #180)
Fixed a bug when there is no column header row in LaTeX (Thank you @leovan)
Fixed header formatting for repeated header row in latex longtable (#183)
Removed the tag in threeparttable (#162)
Added valign to collapse_rows to adjust vertical position of the contents. Change default setting from middle to top. (#191)
Added an auto_index function to facilitate group_rows. (#193)
Added a title_format option to footnote and changed default format from bold to italic. (#200)
Now kableExtra imports & exports knitr::kable so users don’t need to load knitr entirely to NAMESPACE when it’s not necessary, for example, in shiny.
Fixed #115, a bug in latex footnote about escaping.
Fixed #116, a bug about the position of footnote in longtable with booktabs
Fixed #119, a bug between collapse_rows and add_header_above
Improve footnotes in longtable and replace threeparttable with threeparttablex. Now footnotes works smoothly in longtable, even with full width in tabu.
Fixed #135, a bug in footnote_marker_symbol
Added a new layout for collapse_rows, thanks @georgegui! #159
Added the linebreak function to support adding linebreaks to LaTeX table.
Added internal support to convert to linebreak in table to all kableExtra functions for both LaTeX and HTML
Added a document about wrapping texts and adding linebreaks.
Fixed a bug related to the handling of special characters
Remove HTML to Word doc from vignette because it’s too large.
Fixed varies other bugs.
Now HTML table will be previewed in Viewer panel
Added HTML color code support to kableExtra
Added footnote as a more flexible replacement for add_footnote. Add_footnote() will be kept maintained for a while.
Fixed bug #105: bold/italic/monospace cannot accept T/F as vector
Added extra_css to cell_spec, row_spec & column_spec
Fixed bug #88: add_footnote doesn’t support full width
Added hline_after and extra_latex_after to row_spec #101
Improved warning message for kables not in html or latex
Added latex_hline to collapse_rows so users can choose from full, major or none
Added strikeout and underline to column_spec, row_spec and cell_spec.
Added extra_css to column_spec, row_spec and cell_spec.
Added a vignette about how to copy tables from HTML to Word.
Change some read_xml to read_html
Added scale_from to some spec_tools
Quite a few minor bug fixes
Fixed a bug in column_spec width introduced in ver 0.6.0
Fixed a bug in add_header_above. #90
Added cell_spec for HTML & LaTeX
Added helper functions including spec_color, spec_font_size, spec_angle, spec_tooltip & spec_popover to facilitate the cell_spec function.
Added align/rotate/font_size to row_spec
Allowed row_spec to modify header row with row_spec(0, …)
Improved repeat_header in LaTeX for longtables. Now you can write texts like “continued on next page”
Fixed a critical bug with latex group_rows (#68)
Escape question mark ? in regex_escape (thanks @nichtleiter)
Switched from readr::write_file to base::writeLines (for support in earlier version of readr)
Switched from sub to str_replace in some places due to a bug in sub on Windows.
Request from CRAN: Changed dependency on magick from Imports to Suggest. Added error message when users don’t have magick installed.
Added argument index to group_rows so users can build multiple row groups in one step. The syntax is the same with add_header_above
Now row_spec and column_spec can take vectors so users can customized multiple row/columns at the same time.
Fixed a bug for kable_as_image on Windows. Improved documentations and error messages.
Added documentations about those color/background color options in column_spec and row_spec
Added the kableExtra_latex_packages function to quickly print all necessary LaTeX packages on the screen.
Hot fix a bug in full_width in LaTeX
Now column_spec & row_spec can customize font & cell background color with 2 new options color & background. Also, you can draw border lines using border_left or border_right when you are using column_spec.
Making it optional to pre-load LaTeX package on package startup
Adding documentations about dependencies on LaTeX packages and the auto-load behavior of kableExtra
Improved the look of full_width in kable_styling LaTeX and add tabu to LaTeX dependency
Added enc2utf8() to improve behavior in non-UTF8 machines.
Added HOLD_position, which uses LaTeX package float and H, for a stronger hold on table position. (Thanks @robshep)
Move conditional usepackage_latex() calls to zzz.R for more consistant behavior
Now you can change strip color for LaTeX tables.
Added support to tables with caption.short.
Added kable_as_image() for LaTeX tables. This function will render the LaTeX code snippet to a piece of standalone PDF file and then convert that to an image, which will then be included in the rmarkdown document, if the environment exists. It’s useful for people who have a strong need of generating Word documents and producing well-formatted LaTeX table at the same time.
For both HTML & LaTeX, added escape option for add_footnote
Fixed a bug in LaTeX for the processing of the + sign
Fixed a bug with the [ symbol in escape_regex
Add scroll_box for HTML table for extremely long/wide tables
Fixed a bug in collapse_row on removing addlinespace
Removed addlinespace from group_rows
Added monospace to column_spec & row_spec
Lowered R version requirement to R 3.1.0
Added testthat (#28, thank you @wibeasley)
For all HTML table functions, changed reading method from xml2::read_xml to xml2::read_html plus some extra steps to avoid errors when HTML contents don’t fulfill XHTML requirements (#24)
For all HTML table functions, improved exportation method to remove the XML declaration. (Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45262308/knit2wp-adds-text-with-kableextra)
Added repeat_header_method in kable_styling (#25)
Fixed a bug in position in kable_styling() (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45378664/kableextra-rmarkdown-tables-aligning-grouping-row-labels-and-footnotes)
Improved striped line look on tables with multiple layers of header rows. (#31)
Added escape to add_header_above and group_rows
Added PDF vignette to the CRAN vignette folder
Improved the look of HTML grouped header row (again) by adding spaces between groups
Fixed a bug in grouped header row.
Fixed a bug in grouped rows: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44360040/group-rows-function-in-kableextra-package-not-grouping-rows
Fixed a bug in grouped rows with ()[].
Added a new LaTeX option repeat_header in kable_styling for repeating header rows in a longtable environment.
Fixed a bug in add_header_above to allow special symbol in extra header rows.
Allow column_spec automatically align when width is specified.
Added bold/italic options to add_header_above.
Added collapse_rows to collapse repeated rows to multirow cell
Improve package-level documentation based on @wibeasley’s suggestion
Added column_spec() to customize the look of the selected column.
Improved the look of HTML grouped header row.
Fixed an error in a documentation.
Added add_indent() feature to add indentations to rows in HTML and LaTeX.
Added group_rows() feature to group rows together in HTML and LaTeX.
Changing font_size in kable_styling won’t affect table caption any more.
Fixed a bug in scale_down in kable_styling on landscape page in LaTeX.
Changed stop to message on format checking.
Added an example for how to use it in Shiny.
Fixed a few errors in the LaTeX vignette file.