I'm using rmarkdown::render, which executes pandoc, to create a fairly
simple document, and I would like to prevent tables from breaking across
pages. I've been doing some web-searching but haven't found a solution.
In my report's context, the table is so short that breaking it across
pages looks shabby, whereas leaving some empty space at the bottom of the
page is acceptable.
## this R script creates a reproducible example
## on my installation
library(rmarkdown)
library(knitr)
sink('tmp.Rmd')
cat('---
title: A Title
output:
html_document:
toc: yes
number_sections: yes
word_document:
reference_docx: report-template.docx
pdf_document:
number_sections: yes
toc: yes
---\n\n')
for (i in 1:65) {
cat('ln',i,'\n\n')
}
mytbl <- data.frame(A=1:5, B=1:5)
## then, within a chunk:
print(kable(mytbl))
for (i in 66:70) {
cat('ln',i,'\n\n')
}
sink()
render('tmp.Rmd','pdf_document')
## open tmp.pdf and see that the table breaks
## between the first and second pages
## possibly, other latex installations will be different
## (e.g., I have default letter-size paper, A4 will
## be different. Change the 1:65 until the table starts
## two or three lines from the bottom of the page.)
An alternative to kable() that has a suitable arg, would be easiest, I
suppose. I've looked at pander::pandoc.table without success.
Naturally, I'd like the solution to work for word_document as well, but
I'd be more than grateful for a pdf solution. It's irrelevant for html
output.
If it matters, am working in R at a shell command line, not within RStudio.
Thanks in advance.
-Don
--
Don MacQueen
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062
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