Markdown tables aren't correctly showing in PDF output

[hope-data-science]

In the template (https://rjournal.github.io/rjtools/articles/article_template.html), we can learn how to include data tables in rjtools. Is there a way to include tables as provided in https://dereksonderegger.github.io/570L/15-rmarkdown-tricks.html? Currently, I could not find a way to use other formats in the table (e.g. I might want to include a \CRANpkg{} or [@] for reference in the table). How can I make a table like below (the references have links):

Thanks.

[mitchelloharawild]

This is possible with markdown tables, but it appears there is an issue with the PDF format. Something like this should (but doesn't completely) work:

@Book{plotly,
    author = {Carson Sievert},
    title = {{Interactive Web-Based Data Visualizatio}n with R, plotly, and shiny},
    publisher = {Chapman and Hall/CRC},
    year = {2020},
    isbn = {9781138331457},
    url = {https://plotly-r.com},
  }

@Manual{crosstalk,
  title = {{crosstalk}: Inter-Widget Interactivity for HTML Widgets},
  author = {Joe Cheng and Carson Sievert},
  year = {2021},
  note = {R package version 1.1.1},
  url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=crosstalk},
}

```{r}
tbl <- tibble::tribble(
  ~ package, ~ reference,
  "plotly", "[@plotly]",
  "crosstalk", "[@crosstalk]"
)
knitr::kable(tbl, escape = FALSE)

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16127127/159583937-becdd27a-cdd0-4163-8528-2d10cb42be9f.png)

[mitchelloharawild]

I've poked around a bit more into this issue and found that [@cite] doesn't work when in a LaTeX tabular environment (which kable() produces).

Instead set kable() to produce some form of markdown table, which will correctly be picked on by pandoc and converted to a proper citation. For example:

```{r}
tbl <- tibble::tribble(
  ~ package, ~ reference,
  "plotly", "[@plotly]",
  "crosstalk", "[@crosstalk]"
)
knitr::kable(tbl, escape = FALSE, format = "simple")

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16127127/190045608-3aaee29b-6a26-4741-a922-2da28fa900b3.png)

Note, you will also need to load in the `longtables` tex package for pandoc tables to work:
```yaml
header-includes: '\usepackage{longtable}'

I hope to make this automatic, but it is difficult at the moment due to how we handle tex dependencies in a separate wrapper file (legacy reasons).