What is the kable() method in R?
Overview
kable() is a method in R designed to generate a table against the given input. It is a part of the knitr package, which should be installed in the R environment for the kable method to run.
Syntax
kable(data)
Parameters
The input (data) for the kable function is an R object or a data frame.
Return value
kable returns a table for a data object. If the input is a list of objects, it returns a table containing multiple tables.
Example
Let’s look at an example of the kable function.
library(knitr) #Importing the library for kable()my_basket = data.frame(#Column 01ITEM_GROUP = c("Fruit","Fruit","Fruit","Vegetable","Vegetable","Vegetable","Dairy","Dairy","Dairy"),#Column 02ITEM_NAME = c("Apple","Banana","Orange","Carrot","Potato","Brinjal","Milk","Cheese","Cream"),#Column 03Price = c(100.981, 80.643, 65.3,71.9, 62.2, 71.3,25.1, 62.9, 41.9))#Function callkable(my_basket)
Explanation
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Line 1: We include the package which is required by the
kablefunction in order to run. -
Lines 3 to 17: We generate our data frame.
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Line 20: We call the
kablefunction to generate the table for our data frame.
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