Context: I am knitting an Rmarkdown report mixing landscape and portrait layouts. I use the technique described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41945462/10264278.
Problem: there is an unexpected table layout problem. when the table is made using kableExtra::kable() it does not follow the expected orientationif a caption is filled in kable(caption =...).
Reproducible example:
---
output: pdf_document
header-includes:
- \usepackage{pdflscape}
- \newcommand{\blandscape}{\begin{landscape}}
- \newcommand{\elandscape}{\end{landscape}}
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo=FALSE, warning=FALSE, comment=FALSE, message=FALSE)
library(dplyr)
library(kableExtra)
```
\blandscape
```{r}
mtcars # displays properly
mtcars %>% kable(caption = "test", digits = 2) # the table follows the landscape layout and does not remains "still"/"horizontal"
```
\elandscape
The output:
Table on the left (mtcars) is displayed as expected. But, if I use kable() the table "turns with the page" witch is not expected.
EDIT:
I am aware that kableExtra::landscape() exists. But this function creates a new page for each table. Here I have many few-rows tables that are very wide. Thus I do not want to have a single table per page.
Example:
```{r}
head(mtcars, 5) %>% kable(caption = "test", digits = 2) %>% landscape(margin = NULL)
head(mtcars, 5) %>% kable(caption = "test", digits = 2) %>% landscape(margin = NULL)
```
Output:
EDIT 2:
This problem occurs only if a caption is specified in kable(caption = ...).
Example:
\blandscape
```{r}
mtcars # displays properly
mtcars %>% kable(digits = 2) # the table follows the landscape layout and does not remains "still"/"horizontal"
```
\elandscape
Output:
