How to remove/hide column names in kable?

r-markdown kable
Manish picture Manish · Jul 18, 2018 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I am plotting a table using following code but I found there is unnecessary column names V1 and V2 appear as column name.

statdat<-read.table("stat.txt",sep="\t",header=FALSE)
kable(statdat)

enter image description here

How can I avoid printing the column name?

Answer

Martin picture Martin · Nov 7, 2018

You can set col.names to NULL to remove the column names:

kable(statdat, col.names = NULL)

An alternative solution is to use format="pandoc" and cat() to select the relevant rows after the table has been created. This solution is given here: R- knitr:kable - How to display table without column names?

Related questions

Replace column names in kable/R markdown

My data frame has ugly column names, but when displaying the table in my report, I want to their "real" names including special characters '(', new lines, greek letters, repeated names, etc. Is there an easy way of replacing …

Read More
Aligning Columns with knitr kable function

I am performing a simple task: creating a table and outputting it using R Markdown to pdf as follows: library(knitr) kable(datatable,align='ccccccc', col.names = c("Copy","Sigma Est","Sigma Lower","Sigma Upper", "Lambda Est","Lambda Lower","Lambda …

Read More
Scale kable table to fit page width

How do you format a table in pdf using kable function? Because my output table width exceeds the width of the pdf. Here is an example: --- output: pdf_document --- ```{r} df <- cbind(mtcars[1:5,], mtcars[1:5,]) knitr::kable(…

Read More