Reduce cell width and font size of table using pandoc.table()

Question

I\'m using knitr and pander to make a table in a markdown file. I\'m converting the markdown file to a PDF using Pandoc from within R.

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Answer 1

You can change the fontsize for specific cells in pander, and thus the entire table, but as a workaround using latex code.

Where your cell is, if the data populating your cell is "770" next to another cell populated by "$731,258", If you replace the first cell by paste0("\\scriptsize", "770"), your output will look like something like this:

as you can see, the "770" is in a smaller font. You can do this with any latex font tag.