Open jmbarbone opened 2 years ago
White spaces in the Markdown source shouldn't matter when the table is rendered (e.g., to HTML/PDF). It seems that you want the Markdown source to be more human-readable. I think we can provide an option to preserve the white spaces.
Currently left and right whitespace is removed from the entire table. For outputs that utilize white space (e.g., left white space with monospace fonts) this causes problems with number alignments.
https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/b09cbc151a5531daec2a72eadaefdd565b633646/R/table.R#L151
An option to
Would prefer controls for:
Currently have to assign some arbitrary symbols that are then removed to preserve leading white space
Created on 2021-11-02 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)
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