I am just starting to learn about KnitR and the use of Markdown in generating R documents and reports. This looks to be perfect for a lot of the day to day reporting that I have to do with my job. However, one thing that I'm not seeing is an easy way to print data frames and tables using Markdown formatting (sort of like xtable
, but with Markdown instead of LaTeX or HTML). I know that I can just embed the HTML output from xtable, but I was wondering if there were any Markdown-based solutions?
Now knitr
(since version 1.3) package include the kable
function for a creation tables:
> library(knitr)
> kable(head(iris[,1:3]), format = "markdown")
| Sepal.Length| Sepal.Width| Petal.Length|
|-------------:|------------:|-------------:|
| 5,1| 3,5| 1,4|
| 4,9| 3,0| 1,4|
| 4,7| 3,2| 1,3|
| 4,6| 3,1| 1,5|
| 5,0| 3,6| 1,4|
| 5,4| 3,9| 1,7|
UPDATED: if you get raw markdown in a document try setup results = "asis"
chunk option.