handle wide tables in PDF

[srowelluf]

This is something we briefly discussed in the zoom call; but wanted to give info. When using Kable in Quarto (version that ships with RStudio 2022.07.1 Build 554), wide tables are resized to fit automatically (by wrapping long column names). In GT the right most part of the table is cut off. I used mtcars as an example. (knitr 1.40)

I'm including both screenshots and the code form quarto doc.

Screenshots of results:

GT PDF

Kable PDF

GT rendered to html: table does make the columns fit, like kable does for PDF:

Any thoughts on this?

Quarto doc:

`---
title: "Testing PDF"
format:
pdf
editor: visual

library(tidyverse)
library(gt)
library(gtExtras)

GT

cylinders

mtcars %>% 
  gt() %>% 
  cols_label(mpg = "miles per gal",
             cyl = "Number of cylinders",
             disp = "Displacement (cu.in.)",
             hp = "Gross horsepower"
             )
  

Kable

mtcars %>% 
  knitr::kable(col.names = c("miles per gal", "Number of cylinders", "Displacement (cu.in.)", "Gross horsepower", "drat", "wt", "qsec", "vs", "am", "gear", "carb"))

`