Hot wo get aligned data frame output table for Julia DataFrames

[mucahitzor]

Description

Hello everyone! I have been using Julia for some time and have tried different ways to code. So far I liked Pluto, but wanted to try something else as well. Since I am coming from R, I wanted to try Quarto with Julia in VSCode. One problem I am having is that when I render for HTML, data frame outputs look not as I expected:
default output

Quarto has some options for tables such as tbl-colwidths, and df-print which in my case didn’t work. I guess this is probably because they are not defined for Julia? I don’t know but I was able to overcome this using markdown_table function, but this output lacks information about the types of columns.

markdown output

Is there any way that I can get the first table fixed? Thanks!

Here is how my .qmd looks like:

---
title: "Data Frames" 
execute:
    cache: true
jupyter: julia-1.9
---

```{julia}
using DataFramesMeta, MarkdownTables, Random, Distributions
```

```{julia}
y = DataFrame(
    x = round.(rand(10),digits=2),
    y = rand(["A","B"],10),
    z = sample(1:100,10),
    w = 1
)
```

```{julia}
y = DataFrame(
    x = round.(rand(10),digits=2),
    y = rand(["A","B"],10),
    z = sample(1:100,10),
    w = 1
)

markdown_table(y)
```

[cscheid]

Quarto has some options for tables such as tbl-colwidths, and df-print which in my case didn’t work.

These are knitr options rather than quarto options, and so they will generally only work in the knitr engine.

(We'd like to get better table printing in non-knitr formats, and we agree that the options aren't great now.)

[mcanouil]

A workaround would be to use knitr as the engine and use JuliaCall (https://non-contradiction.github.io/JuliaCall/index.html) to call Julia.

[mucahitzor]

Thank you very much to both of you.