Tables in Markdown Format

View the underlying source code to understand how this page was composed at: https://github.com/ontheline/otl-bookdown/blob/main/9.3.5-tables.Rmd

Two approaches to tables: long, complex, or dynamic in Datawrapper, versus short or static in Markdown

For long, complex or dymamic tables that may be updated often, create a Google Sheet, link to Datawrapper, and save backup CSV or XLSX in GitHub repo. Follow iframe image guidelines, including a PNG download. Unless data has specific historical year, start file name with datawrapper-keywords.png.

For short or static tables, create in Markdown format, since it produces good output for HTML, PDF, Word, and Markdown. Use a tool such as Tables Generator to import significant table data in CSV format, format the column alignment as desired, and press Generate button to create table in Markdown format. For significant table data, save the CSV version in a GitHub repo for potential later use.

Add the Markdown table code shown below to auto-number (Table x) in HTML, PDF, Word.

…as shown in Table 9.1.

Table 9.1: Left-justify content, remember blank Line
Much Much Longer Header	Short Header	Short Header
Left-justify text content with left-colons	Less	Here
Use more hyphens to grant more space to some columns	Less	Here

Table 9.2: Right-justify content, remember blank line
Header1	Header2	Header3
123	456	789
Right-justify	numerical content	with right-colons
Use equal hyphens	to make equal space	for all columns

Note that Bookdown creates the Markdown file with tables in HTML format, not Markdown format. If necessary, one workaround is to paste the individual Markdown-formatted tables directly from the .Rmd into a modified full-book .md file.

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