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I'm working with the 'pander' and 'sendmailr' packages to send a small data frame in the body of an email, rather than as an attachment. I'd like to send it from and to a gmail account. I'm close, but the column headers won't align with the columns themselves in the email body the way they do in Rstudio for example- basically the column headers are too wide to line up with the data columns below them. It seems the problem is the way the dashes and whitespaces are compressed in various email clients (I tried this in gmail, yahoo and hotmail through the web and through the email client that

I am currently switching to pander for most of my knitr-markdown formatting, because it provides such great pandoc support. One of the things I am not so happy with is the default center-alignment. Marketing people may love it, but for technical reports it is an horror. The best choice used by Hmisc is to use left alignment for texts and dates by default, and right alignment for number of all type. Is there a simple way to get this globally set in pander ? library(pander) pander(data.frame( name = letters[1:3], size = 1:3, we.have.dates = Sys.Date() - 1:3 )) Thanks for you kind words and great

I've a set of tables that I'm generating with use of the code similar to the snippet below: ```{r tables, echo=TRUE, eval=TRUE} require(reshape2); require(pander) data("mtcars") data("AirPassengers") dta_lst <- list(mtcars, AirPassengers) for (i in 1:length(dta_lst)) { pander(melt(head(dta_lst[[i]], n = 2), varnames = c("Something"), value.name = "Something else"), caption = paste("Some table for: ", class(dta_lst[[i]]))) } ``` When I run the code it produces the desired output (naturally, the provided example makes little sense, in my proper data I melt the data in sensible manner): ---------

Using knitr in RStudio, pander does not produce any (or correct) html output when in a for loop. Here is a minimal case, as an Rmd input file. --- title: "Untitled" output: html_document --- Testing why pander doesn't work in for loop ```{r global_options, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(fig.width=7, fig.height=5, echo=FALSE, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE) ``` ```{r} library(pander) r <- 1:10 print("pander at top level") pander(summary(r)) # works print("pander in for loop") for (i in 1:2) pander(summary(r)) #does not work (nothing in output) for (i in 1:2) print(pander(summary(r))) #does

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. This code: library(knitr) ```{r myTable, echo=FALSE, message=FALSE, results='asis', comment=""} library(pander) pandoc.table(head(iris)) ``` then running this function within R: knitsPDF <- function(name) { knit(paste0(name, ".Rmd"), encoding = "utf-8") callformat <-"pandoc -V geometry:margin=1in %s.md -o %s.pdf" system(sprintf(callformat, name, name)) } knitsPDF(name) # insert file name of .Rmd file produces this table in the PDF file: How can I 1. Reduce width