table caption adds [H] when i use HOLD_position option in kable_styling in pdf output

[bhattmaulik]

I am using Quarto to prepare a document. I want to render it as PDF/Latex document. In this document, I need some tables, which I am formatting using kableExtra package. I want to HOLD the position of the table, so that they don't appear on the next page. But when I add "HOLD_position" option in the kable_styling, it adds an extra [H] above the table. Let me share a minimal example of this.

---

title: "Table Position"
format: pdf
editor: visual

Quarto

Load the packages required

library(tidyverse) #optional
library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)

Experiment with the data

#| echo: false 
#| label: tbl-cars 
#| tbl-cap: "Some cars" 
head(mtcars) |> kableExtra::kbl(booktabs = TRUE) |> kable_styling(latex_options = c("striped", "bordered","HOLD_position"),full_width = FALSE) %>%   column_spec(2, width = "30em")

If I use the option tbl-cap-location: bottom, then the table caption comes at the bottom of the table, but this [H] still remains at the top of the table. When I remove the "HOLD_position" option, this [H] goes away. When I use "hold_position" instead of "HOLD_position", it adds [!h] above the table instead of [H]. How can I get rid of these extra additions to the table?

[bhattmaulik]

I just solved it by removing the "HOLD_position" argument, and putting the following code in the preamble:

\AtBeginDocument{
\floatplacement{table}{H}
}

[mine-cetinkaya-rundel]

I'm running into this too with kableExtra 1.4.0.4.

[dmurdoch]

I don't see this in the equivalent R Markdown document, so it's likely some small difference in the way LaTeX is generated between the two systems. I don't use Quarto, so someone else will have to come up with a PR.

[cderv]

I confirm this is a Quarto issue for when the table is cross reference (meaning label has a tbl-prefix)