Rmarkdown tab.cap not working with kbl

[g-antonello]

Thank you for the packages, it makes table manipulation super versatile. I think I came across an issue, though. I was trying to assign captions to my kbl tables, but Rmarkdown was not able to render them. Below is the .Rmd code I used, which I knitted to html.

Best
Giacomo

testTableCaptions.txt

[dmurdoch]

I think there are two issues here. First, kbl() ignores the tab.cap option, but you can specify a caption by including it in the arguments to kbl(), e.g. change your code chunk to

```{r example-table2}
library(kableExtra)
kbl(mtcars[1:5, 1:5], caption = "This is the caption for the table. Done with KableExtra")
```

The second issue is that this won't match the style of the previous table, and that's likely a problem for you. I don't know BiocStyle, so I am not sure how it is specifying the style that is being shown. Do you know? If not, maybe we should contact its author, and see whether this is something kableExtra could do or whether one or both packages would need changes to be compatible.