How can I ensure my gt table sits on its own page (when outputting as pdf)?

[e05bf027]

I am writing a thesis. There is a table that I have generated using gtsummary. My output is a pdf through Quarto markdown.

At the end of the workflow I want to make it output as_latex(). The table itself looks perfect, but I want to avoid it splitting across different pages (the table itself is not too long for a single page). Essentially I want to create a floating environment in the same way as a LaTeX document, but I am unsure how to do that in this context.

Code for my table:

demo_summary%>% 
  select(-c(patient_id,
            pathogenic_factor,
            ards_risk_factor,
            adm_date,
            # adm_location,
            dc_date_time,
            ventilator)) %>% 
  relocate(bmi, .after = weight_kg) %>% 
  tbl_summary(by = NULL,
              statistic = list(all_continuous() ~ "{mean} ({sd})",
                               all_categorical() ~ "{n} ({p}%)"),
              digits = list(all_continuous() ~ 1,
                            all_categorical() ~ 0),
              label = list(gender ~ 'Gender',
                           age_years ~ 'Age (years)',
                           height_cm ~ 'Height (cm)',
                           weight_kg ~ 'Weight (kg)',
                           bmi ~ 'BMI',
                           ards_type ~ 'ARDS classification',
                           adm_location ~ 'Admitting location',
                           los_days ~ 'LOS (days)',
                           apache_ii ~ 'Apache II',
                           total_proning_sessions ~ 'Proning sessions',
                           outcome ~ 'Outcome'),
              missing = 'ifany',
              missing_text = 'Not recorded') %>%
  bold_labels() %>% 
  # add_overall() %>% 
  as_gt() %>% 
  as_latex()

I asked about this from the point of view of Quarto but they said it wasn't something that could be facilitated from their point of view, but that I should try here directly.

Any idea how I would do this?

[benyamindsmith]

I am interested in this question as well.

[reddylee]

Have you fixed it out? I am curious about it as well.

[olivroy]

Hi both, please give a try to the development version of gt. gt tables are now rendered as tabular instead of longtable

pak::pak("rstudio/gt")

see changelog for available customization

[reddylee]

Thanks, Olivroy. It works now. Excellent!

[reddylee]

I got another issue: it looks like the following function does not work in pdf. I want to increase the height of rows but failed.

tab_options(data_row.padding = px(35), heading.padding = px(35))

[olivroy]

@reddylee Please open an issue about this! Follow the template and provide a reproducible example!

[reddylee]

Thanks.