Remove italics from header row after row_spec(x, italic = T)

[kstierhoff]

Hi, Is it possible to italicize the contents of a column but keep regular fonts in the header rows? The example below illustrates what I'm describing. The problem typically occurs for me when italicizing a column of species names with the header "Species" which I wouldn't want italicized.

Calling row_spec(1, italic = F) after col_spec(1 italic = T) seemed intuitive but didn't work. Maybe I'm missing something in the documentation. The code used to generate the table is also below.

Thanks, Kevin

kable(imp.data,align = c("l","l","r","r","r","r","r"),escape = F,longtable = T,booktabs = T) %>% kable_styling(position = "center",latex_options = c("repeat_header")) %>% column_spec(1, italic = T) %>% row_spec(1, italic = F) %>% add_header_above(c(" " = 2, "Frequency" = 5))

[haozhu233]

Emm, @kstierhoff, due to the mechanism of this package, I guess it's not very likely this can be implemented. I guess you will have to do it in the hard way.

library(kableExtra)
dt <- mtcars[1:6, 1:6]
dt$measurement <- row.names(dt)
dt <- dt[c(7, 1:6)]
row.names(dt) <- NULL
kable(dt,"latex", align = c("l","l","r","r","r","r","r"), 
      # put normalfont around your column name ---------------------------
      col.names = c("\\normalfont{Measurement}", "Units", "18", "38", "70", "120", "200"), 
      # --------------------------------------
      escape = F, longtable = T, booktabs = T) %>% 
  kable_styling(position = "center",latex_options = c("repeat_header")) %>% 
  column_spec(1, italic = T) %>% 
  add_header_above(c(" " = 2, "Frequency" = 5))

[haozhu233]

Hmm, now I rethink about it. It might be possible by wrapping things up in multicolumn. I will give it a try over the weekend. Thanks for the suggestion, Kevin!

[kstierhoff]

Thanks for thinking about this! The solution you propose will work just fine for me (and is not THAT hard), but a more elegant solution would be cool, especially for more complex tables. I'm just glad there's a way to override the italics header, which I couldn't figure out on my own (since I don't know Latex very well).