Color of knitr::kable text

[prairie-rex]

On dark themes, every default in RStudio and ones created in tm Themer the text of a knitr::kable(data.frame) table is black and therefore unreadable. I've reviewed my custom themes and there is no black left on any item. I don't know if this can be fixed but it definitely harms accessibility.

Work around is knit the document to review the table which works if you don't have slow code.

xfun::session_info('rmarkdown') R version 4.2.3 (2023-03-15 ucrt) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22621), RStudio 2023.6.0.421

Locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8
LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8

Package version: base64enc_0.1.3 bslib_0.5.0
cachem_1.0.8 cli_3.6.0
digest_0.6.31 ellipsis_0.3.2
evaluate_0.21 fastmap_1.1.1
fontawesome_0.5.1 fs_1.6.3
glue_1.6.2 graphics_4.2.3
grDevices_4.2.3 highr_0.10
htmltools_0.5.4 jquerylib_0.1.4
jsonlite_1.8.7 knitr_1.43
lifecycle_1.0.3 magrittr_2.0.3
memoise_2.0.1 methods_4.2.3
mime_0.12 R6_2.5.1
rappdirs_0.3.3 rlang_1.1.0
rmarkdown_2.23 sass_0.4.7
stats_4.2.3 stringi_1.7.12
stringr_1.5.0 tinytex_0.45
tools_4.2.3 utils_4.2.3
vctrs_0.6.3 xfun_0.39
yaml_2.3.7

Pandoc version: 3.1.1

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[cderv]

This would be an issue for RStudio IDE directly. We don't control the color of text they use in the editor AFAIK.

I wonder if this is already reported at

• https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/13292

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I'll close this here. thank you again for the report!

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