Option to export tables to LaTeX code

[aeturrell]

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Prework

• [x] Read and abide by the great_tables code of conduct and contributing guidelines.
• [x] Search for duplicates among the existing issues (both open and closed).

Proposal

It would be fantastic if there was an option to export tables to LaTeX as this would unlock a wide range of further uses in presentations, papers, and reports. For prior art, the original gt package in R does this, and pandas has a table export option.

Thanks for the great work on great tables!

[rich-iannone]

Yes! We are planning for this, and it'll be something that's done in early-to-mid 2024. The reason for it being scheduled a bit later is so we could first get the core functionality into this package working well.

[aeturrell]

Amazing news, thank you.

[apoorvkh]

Just wondering, do you think this will be implemented by the next version? Or a longer timeline?

Would love to ditch my pandas dependency and rely on polars and great-tables instead!

[machow]

We should have the more fine-grained styling options implemented pretty soon (https://github.com/posit-dev/great-tables/pull/341), which will be useful to have in place before implementing latex support. Lemme check with @rich-iannone in our next meeting on timing 😅

[apoorvkh]

Great, thanks so much for the update!

[fzyzcjy]

+1 that would be super helpful!

[jrycw]

I'll close this issue as the feature has been implemented and merged.

[fzyzcjy]

Congratulations and thanks for the feature!

[aeturrell]

This is fantastic news, thank you for implementing. I will add to Coding for Economists in due course! (Issue here)