Data frame to word table?

Question

Is there a way to easily turn a data frame into a Word table via rmarkdown?

If I use rmarkdown in RStudio to create a Word document I get a nicely printed table but

Answer 1

Here is a very low-tech (and fast) way to do it

source("http://michael.hahsler.net/SMU/EMIS7332/R/copytable.R") 

and run the example

copytable(summary(iris))

now copy&paste and you are done!

Just for reference, here is also the source code for the copytable function:

library(xtable)

copytable <- function(x, ...) {
  f <- tempfile(fileext=".html")
  print(xtable(x, ...), "html", file = f)
  browseURL(f)
}