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 # kableExtra
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 When we are talking about table generators in R, knitr::kable wins lots of flavor by its ultimate simplicity. Unlike those powerful table rendering engines such as `xtable`, the philosophy behind kable is to make it easy for programmers to use. Just as it claimed in its function description,