How to stop bookdown tables from floating to bottom of the page in pdf?
bookdown, knitr, latex, r, r-markdown
Solution
You can solve this problem with `kableExtra` by
data_frame(col_a = seq_len(5), col_b = rnorm(5), col_c = runif(5)) %>%
knitr::kable(caption = "This is a test") %>%
kableExtra::kable_styling(latex_options = "hold_position")
It basically insert a `[!h]` to the LaTeX `table` environment which will prevent the floating behavior and pin the table at current location.
Problem
I am using `bookdown` to create pdf reports, but my tables are all floating down to the bottom of the page, regardless of how much space there is. See this example: ```` --- title: "test_doc" author: "Jake Thompson" date: "6/30/2017" output: bookdown::pdf_document2: toc: false --- ```{r setup, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE, collapse = TRUE) library(tidyverse) ``` # Test heading Let make a data frame and print it in Table \@ref(tab:test-table) ```{r test-table} data_frame(col_a = seq_len(5), col_b = rnorm(5), col_c = runif(5)) %>% knitr::kable(caption = "This is a test") ``` ```` The resulting pdf looks like this: Why does the table go to the bottom of the page? And is there a way to prevent this behavior?