Option to omit longtable environment in Latex

[jonathandroth]

Thank you for the great package!

I think it would be great if the gtsave function had an option to omit the \begin{longtable} and \end{longtable} parts and only save the the text from \begin{tabular} to \end{tabular}. This would facilitate incorporating the output into Latex documents, and would be analogous to e.g. the contents_only option in xtable.

[spittssj]

I agree with this suggestion. Right now I am struggling to add captions and labels to LaTeX tables produced by the gt package and this would be an easy solution.

[jonathandroth]

@spittssj In case it's helpful as a work-around, I wrote some simple functions here to convert longtable to tabular in a text file. The same link also has a function to extract only the part between the \begin{tabular} and \end{tabular}. This post-processing worked pretty well for me, although it'd be great if it were eventually made internal to gt.

[spittssj]

@jonathandroth the link you provided doesn't work but the code you describes sounds useful. Can you check the link (or perhaps the security settings)? Thanks.

[jonathandroth]

@spittssj apologies, here is a public version https://github.com/jiafengkevinchen/logs-public/blob/6b2e96e482a2b389e182b1c8bbbc4d5023931fae/extract_tabular.R#L41

[spittssj]

Thanks @jonathandroth. I tried the code and it works well.

[jonathandroth]

Glad to hear!

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[olivroy]

I think this would be fixed if #1588 is merged?

[jonathandroth]

I think not quite, because the request was to have the output begin with \begin{tabular}, whereas the new feature appears to output \begin{table} \\n \begin{tabular}.

Just to clarify, the motivation for this request is that I find it much easier to handle creating tables locally in Latex--- because captioning, labeling, and desired placement are specific to the document. So my Latex document would have

\begin{table}[<placement options desired for this doc>]
\input{gt_output.tex}
\caption{<relevant caption for my table>}
\label{<label>}
\end{table} 

Of course, while you're modifying this code, it seems like it should be straightforward to omit the \begin{table} \\n part.