diff --git a/man/column_spec.Rd b/man/column_spec.Rd
index 8d19fc7..1f8a2d0 100644
--- a/man/column_spec.Rd
+++ b/man/column_spec.Rd
@@ -113,8 +113,10 @@
 internally, any backslashes must be escaped.
 }
 \examples{
+\dontrun{
 x <- knitr::kable(head(mtcars), "html")
 column_spec(x, 1:2, width = "20em", bold = TRUE, italic = TRUE)
 x <- knitr::kable(head(mtcars), "latex", booktabs = TRUE)
 column_spec(x, 1, latex_column_spec = ">{\\\\\\\\color{red}}c")
 }
+}