11.7 Tables
Tables can be included with the kable() function of the knitr package. kable() has an argument called caption to add a caption to the table produced. The code below shows the code to create a table with the first rows of the gapminder data.
knitr::kable(head(gapminder),
caption = "First rows of the 'gapminder' data."
)| country | continent | year | lifeExp | pop | gdpPercap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Asia | 1952 | 28.801 | 8425333 | 779.4453 |
| Afghanistan | Asia | 1957 | 30.332 | 9240934 | 820.8530 |
| Afghanistan | Asia | 1962 | 31.997 | 10267083 | 853.1007 |
| Afghanistan | Asia | 1967 | 34.020 | 11537966 | 836.1971 |
| Afghanistan | Asia | 1972 | 36.088 | 13079460 | 739.9811 |
| Afghanistan | Asia | 1977 | 38.438 | 14880372 | 786.1134 |
Other possible Markdown syntax specifications and R chunks options can be explored in the R Markdown reference R Markdown Reference Guide.