Space after every five rows in kable output (with booktabs option) in R Markdown document

Question

I am using knitr::kable() to render tables as part of an R Markdown document (that itself is part of a bookdown project). In parti

Answer 1

Based on the example above I was interested in controlling the separation. That works nicely with the following helper function. This makes it possible to control the locations of the line separation.

linesep<-function(x,y=character()){
  if(!length(x))
    return(y)
  linesep(x[-length(x)], c(rep('',x[length(x)]-1),'\\addlinespace',y))  
}
knitr::kable(
  head(iris, 20), caption = 'Here is a nice table!',
  booktabs = TRUE,
  linesep = linesep(c(3,2,1,1,3,5,4,1))
)