Better Tables with knitr::kable()

Note

This is one of a few posts on new features from a recent four-day knitr backlog sprint; see that post for the full details of the sprint.

kable() is deliberately minimal—it makes a simple table and gets out of your way, and if you want fancy tables, you reach for many other packages such as kableExtra, gt, lt, and flextable, etc. But “minimal” shouldn’t mean …