Output table width in Rmarkdown

Question

I\'m using Rmarkdown to create a document. I want to include markdown tables, but they are all scaled to the width of the page. I\'d like to specify a relative width of say.

Answer 1

If you're outputting an html document you need to modify the css. You can add this directly to the Rmd document:

<style type="text/css">
.table {

    width: 40%;

}
</style>