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Huxtable is an R package to create LaTeX and HTML tables, with a friendly, modern interface. Features include control over text styling, number format, background color, borders, padding and alignment. Cells can span multiple rows and/or columns. Tables can be manipulated with standard R subsetting or dplyr functions.

Quick Examples

Simple table 

ht <- hux(
        Employee = c("John Smith", "Jane Doe", "David Hugh-Jones"),
        Salary = c(50000, 50000, 40000),
        add_colnames = TRUE
      )

bold(ht)[1,]           <- TRUE
bottom_border(ht)[1,]  <- 0.4
align(ht)[,2]          <- "right"
right_padding(ht)      <- 10
left_padding(ht)       <- 10
width(ht)              <- 0.35
number_format(ht)      <- 2

ht
Employee Salary
John Smith 50000.00
Jane Doe 50000.00
David Hugh-Jones 40000.00

Pipe interface 

library(magrittr)
ht <- hux(
        Employee = c("John Smith", "Jane Doe", "David Hugh-Jones"),
        Salary = c(50000, 50000, 40000)
      )

ht |>
      set_bold(1, everywhere)             |>
      set_bottom_border(1, everywhere)    |>
      set_align(everywhere, 2, "right")   |>
      set_lr_padding(10)                  |>
      set_width(0.35)                     |>
      set_number_format(2)
Employee Salary
John Smith 50000.00
Jane Doe 50000.00
David Hugh-Jones 40000.00

Conditional formatting 

mtcars[1:5, 1:5] |>
      as_huxtable(add_rownames = "Model") |>
      set_bold(1, everywhere, TRUE) |>
      set_all_borders(1) |>
      map_text_color(everywhere, "mpg", by_colorspace("navy", "red", "yellow")) |>
      map_background_color(everywhere, "hp", by_quantiles(0.8, c("white", "yellow"))) |>
      map_italic(everywhere, "Model", by_regex("Merc.*" = TRUE))
Model mpg cyl disp hp drat
Mazda RX4 21   6 160 110 3.9
Mazda RX4 Wag 21   6 160 110 3.9
Datsun 710 22.8 4 108 93 3.85
Hornet 4 Drive 21.4 6 258 110 3.08
Hornet Sportabout 18.7 8 360 175 3.15

Table of regressions 

data(diamonds, package = "ggplot2")

lm1 <- lm(log(price) ~ carat, diamonds)
lm2 <- lm(log(price) ~ depth, diamonds)
lm3 <- lm(log(price) ~ carat + depth, diamonds)

huxreg(lm1, lm2, lm3, statistics = c("N" = "nobs", "R2" = "r.squared"))
(1) (2) (3)
(Intercept) 6.215 *** 7.749 *** 7.313 ***
(0.003)    (0.188)    (0.074)   
carat 1.970 ***          1.971 ***
(0.004)             (0.004)   
depth          0.001     -0.018 ***
         (0.003)    (0.001)   
N 53940         53940         53940        
R2 0.847     0.000     0.847    
*** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05.

Quick document output 

quick_pdf(mtcars)
quick_docx(mtcars)
quick_html(mtcars)
quick_xlsx(mtcars)
# Files are produced in the current working directory.

Installation

From R-Universe:

install.packages("huxtable", repos = c(
  "https://hughjonesd.r-universe.dev",
  "https://cloud.r-project.org"
))

From CRAN:

install.packages("huxtable")

Development version from github:

library(devtools)
install_github("hughjonesd/huxtable")

Learning more

Check out the vignette.

The name

Huxtable could stand for “Happy User Xtable”, or if you prefer, “Hyped Up Xtable”, or for Germans maybe “Html Und teX Table”.

Trivia

The logo above was randomly generated by huxtable, using hux_logo(). The web page background uses Piet Mondrian’s Composition A.