Added documentations about those color/background color options in column_spec and row_spec
Added the kableExtra_latex_packages function to quickly print all necessary LaTeX packages on the screen.
Hot fix a bug in full_width in LaTeX
Now column_spec & row_spec can customize font & cell background color with 2 new options color & background. Also, you can draw border lines using border_left or border_right when you are using column_spec.
Making it optional to pre-load LaTeX package on package startup
Adding documentations about dependencies on LaTeX packages and the auto-load behavior of kableExtra
Improved the look of full_width in kable_styling LaTeX and add tabu to LaTeX dependency
Added enc2utf8() to improve behavior in non-UTF8 machines.
Added HOLD_position, which uses LaTeX package float and H, for a stronger hold on table position. (Thanks @robshep)
Move conditional usepackage_latex() calls to zzz.R for more consistant behavior
Now you can change strip color for LaTeX tables.
Added support to tables with caption.short.
Added kable_as_image() for LaTeX tables. This function will render the LaTeX code snippet to a piece of standalone PDF file and then convert that to an image, which will then be included in the rmarkdown document, if the environment exists. It's useful for people who have a strong need of generating Word documents and producing well-formatted LaTeX table at the same time.
For both HTML & LaTeX, added escape option for add_footnote
Fixed a bug in LaTeX for the processing of the + sign
Fixed a bug with the [ symbol in escape_regex
Add scroll_box for HTML table for extremely long/wide tables
Fixed a bug in collapse_row on removing addlinespace
Removed addlinespace from group_rows
Added monospace to column_spec & row_spec
Lowered R version requirement to R 3.1.0
Added testthat (#28, thank you @wibeasley)
For all HTML table functions, changed reading method from xml2::read_xml to xml2::read_html plus some extra steps to avoid errors when HTML contents don't fulfill XHTML requirements (#24)
For all HTML table functions, improved exportation method to remove the XML declaration. (Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45262308/knit2wp-adds-text-with-kableextra)
Added repeat_header_method in kable_styling (#25)
Fixed a bug in position in kable_styling() (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45378664/kableextra-rmarkdown-tables-aligning-grouping-row-labels-and-footnotes)
Improved striped line look on tables with multiple layers of header rows. (#31)
Added escape to add_header_above and group_rows
Added PDF vignette to the CRAN vignette folder
Improved the look of HTML grouped header row (again) by adding spaces between groups
Fixed a bug in grouped header row.
Fixed a bug in grouped rows: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44360040/group-rows-function-in-kableextra-package-not-grouping-rows
Fixed a bug in grouped rows with ()[].
Added a new LaTeX option repeat_header in kable_styling for repeating header rows in a longtable environment.
Fixed a bug in add_header_above to allow special symbol in extra header rows.
Allow column_spec automatically align when width is specified.
Added bold/italic options to add_header_above.
Added collapse_rows to collapse repeated rows to multirow cell
Improve package-level documentation based on @wibeasley's suggestion
Added column_spec() to customize the look of the selected column.
Improved the look of HTML grouped header row.
Fixed an error in a documentation.
Added add_indent() feature to add indentations to rows in HTML and LaTeX.
Added group_rows() feature to group rows together in HTML and LaTeX.
Changing font_size in kable_styling won't affect table caption any more.
Fixed a bug in scale_down in kable_styling on landscape page in LaTeX.
Changed stop to message on format checking.
Added an example for how to use it in Shiny.
Fixed a few errors in the LaTeX vignette file.