Make standard table for rmarkdown reports

This function will return RMarkdown code for creating standard tables

mst(
  tab,
  col_names = colnames(tab),
  type = "latex",
  cap = "",
  label = "",
  digs = 0,
  align = NULL,
  fs = 8,
  lsd = FALSE
)

Arguments

tab

Data frame or matrix represetnting the table

col_names

Character vector with column names. Defaults colnames(tab)

type

Character string defining output, either 'html' or 'latex'. Default is 'latex'

cap

Character string with table caption. Empty string by default

label

Character string defining the label in case the table needs to be referenced elsewhere in the overall document. For instance, setting this to 'my_table' the corresponding inline rmarkdown reference to use is \@ref(tab:my_table). Please note that for this to work for both LaTex and HTML the bookdown document processing functions must be used, i.e. bookdown:pdf_document2() and bookdown::html_document2(), respectively. Default value is knitr::opts_current$get("label").

digs

Numeric number of digits to use. = by default

align

Character vector specifying column alignment in the LaTeX way, e.g. c("l", "c", "r") will align the first column to the left, center the second and right-aling the last one. Default is NULL in which case

fs

Numeric providing the font size. Only apply for LaTeX output. Default value is 8

lsd

Logical if table is to be scaled down. Only apply for LaTeX output. FALSE by default

Value

Character string containing RMarkdown table code

Examples

mst(tab = mtcars[1:10, ])
#> \begin{table}[!h]
#> \centering
#> \caption{\label{tab:}}
#> \centering
#> \fontsize{8}{10}\selectfont
#> \begin{tabular}[t]{lrrrrrrrrrrr}
#> \toprule
#>   & mpg & cyl & disp & hp & drat & wt & qsec & vs & am & gear & carb\\
#> \midrule
#> Mazda RX4 & 21 & 6 & 160 & 110 & 4 & 3 & 16 & 0 & 1 & 4 & 4\\
#> Mazda RX4 Wag & 21 & 6 & 160 & 110 & 4 & 3 & 17 & 0 & 1 & 4 & 4\\
#> Datsun 710 & 23 & 4 & 108 & 93 & 4 & 2 & 19 & 1 & 1 & 4 & 1\\
#> Hornet 4 Drive & 21 & 6 & 258 & 110 & 3 & 3 & 19 & 1 & 0 & 3 & 1\\
#> Hornet Sportabout & 19 & 8 & 360 & 175 & 3 & 3 & 17 & 0 & 0 & 3 & 2\\
#> \addlinespace
#> Valiant & 18 & 6 & 225 & 105 & 3 & 3 & 20 & 1 & 0 & 3 & 1\\
#> Duster 360 & 14 & 8 & 360 & 245 & 3 & 4 & 16 & 0 & 0 & 3 & 4\\
#> Merc 240D & 24 & 4 & 147 & 62 & 4 & 3 & 20 & 1 & 0 & 4 & 2\\
#> Merc 230 & 23 & 4 & 141 & 95 & 4 & 3 & 23 & 1 & 0 & 4 & 2\\
#> Merc 280 & 19 & 6 & 168 & 123 & 4 & 3 & 18 & 1 & 0 & 4 & 4\\
#> \bottomrule
#> \end{tabular}
#> \end{table}