On 02/11/2016 8:22 PM, MacQueen, Don wrote:
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.
If you make it into a float, LaTeX will try not to split it. You can do
that by specifying the caption arg to kable().
I don't know if you can specify where the float appears or if you're
stuck with the default.
Duncan Murdoch
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
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