LaTeX Table Position Argument not used in qmd

[szimmer]

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Description

I am using the most recent development version of gt which includes an argument in tab_options() for latex.tbl.pos. It works interactively but when I use in qmd, the position argument is no longer there.

Reproducible example

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Here's a simple qmd document.

---
title: "gt latex examp"
format: 
  pdf:
    keep-tex: true
    header-includes:
      - \usepackage{booktabs}
      - \usepackage{caption}
      - \usepackage{longtable}
      - \usepackage{colortbl}
      - \usepackage{array}
      - \usepackage{anyfontsize}
      - \usepackage{multirow}
---

## Example code

```{r}
#| label: make-table

library(gt)

# Modify the `airquality` dataset by adding the year
# of the measurements (1973) and limiting to 10 rows
airquality_m <- 
  airquality |>
  dplyr::mutate(Year = 1973L) |>
  dplyr::slice(1:10)
  
# Create a display table using the `airquality`
# dataset; arrange columns into groups
gt_tbl <- 
  gt(airquality_m) 

```

```{r}
#| label: tabprint
#| results: asis
gt_tbl |>
  tab_options(latex.tbl.pos = "h!", latex.use_longtable = FALSE) |>
  as_latex()
```

The table rendered in the .tex code is:

\begin{table}
\fontsize{12.0pt}{14.4pt}\selectfont
\begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}rrrrrrr}
\toprule
Ozone & Solar.R & Wind & Temp & Month & Day & Year \\ 
\midrule\addlinespace[2.5pt]
41 & 190 & 7.4 & 67 & 5 & 1 & 1973 \\ 
36 & 118 & 8.0 & 72 & 5 & 2 & 1973 \\ 
12 & 149 & 12.6 & 74 & 5 & 3 & 1973 \\ 
18 & 313 & 11.5 & 62 & 5 & 4 & 1973 \\ 
NA & NA & 14.3 & 56 & 5 & 5 & 1973 \\ 
28 & NA & 14.9 & 66 & 5 & 6 & 1973 \\ 
23 & 299 & 8.6 & 65 & 5 & 7 & 1973 \\ 
19 & 99 & 13.8 & 59 & 5 & 8 & 1973 \\ 
8 & 19 & 20.1 & 61 & 5 & 9 & 1973 \\ 
NA & 194 & 8.6 & 69 & 5 & 10 & 1973 \\ 
\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}

Running in R rather than qmd yields the following:

library(gt)

# Modify the `airquality` dataset by adding the year
# of the measurements (1973) and limiting to 10 rows
airquality_m <- 
  airquality |>
  dplyr::mutate(Year = 1973L) |>
  dplyr::slice(1:10)

# Create a display table using the `airquality`
# dataset; arrange columns into groups
gt_tbl <- 
  gt(airquality_m) 

gt_tbl |>
  tab_options(latex.tbl.pos = "h!", latex.use_longtable = FALSE) |>
  as_latex() |>
  cat()
#> \begin{table}[h!]
#> \fontsize{12.0pt}{14.4pt}\selectfont
#> \begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}rrrrrrr}
#> \toprule
#> Ozone & Solar.R & Wind & Temp & Month & Day & Year \\ 
#> \midrule\addlinespace[2.5pt]
#> 41 & 190 & 7.4 & 67 & 5 & 1 & 1973 \\ 
#> 36 & 118 & 8.0 & 72 & 5 & 2 & 1973 \\ 
#> 12 & 149 & 12.6 & 74 & 5 & 3 & 1973 \\ 
#> 18 & 313 & 11.5 & 62 & 5 & 4 & 1973 \\ 
#> NA & NA & 14.3 & 56 & 5 & 5 & 1973 \\ 
#> 28 & NA & 14.9 & 66 & 5 & 6 & 1973 \\ 
#> 23 & 299 & 8.6 & 65 & 5 & 7 & 1973 \\ 
#> 19 & 99 & 13.8 & 59 & 5 & 8 & 1973 \\ 
#> 8 & 19 & 20.1 & 61 & 5 & 9 & 1973 \\ 
#> NA & 194 & 8.6 & 69 & 5 & 10 & 1973 \\ 
#> \bottomrule
#> \end{tabular*}
#> \end{table}

^{Created on 2024-08-21 with reprex v2.1.0}

Session info

sessioninfo::session_info()
#> ─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>  setting  value
#>  version  R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24 ucrt)
#>  os       Windows 11 x64 (build 22631)
#>  system   x86_64, mingw32
#>  ui       RTerm
#>  language (EN)
#>  collate  English_United States.utf8
#>  ctype    English_United States.utf8
#>  tz       America/New_York
#>  date     2024-08-21
#>  pandoc   3.1.11 @ C:/Program Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/tools/ (via rmarkdown)
#> 
#> ─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#>  package     * version     date (UTC) lib source
#>  cli           3.6.2       2023-12-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  digest        0.6.35      2024-03-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  dplyr         1.1.4       2023-11-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  evaluate      0.23        2023-11-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  fansi         1.0.6       2023-12-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  fastmap       1.1.1       2023-02-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  fs            1.6.4       2024-04-25 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  generics      0.1.3       2022-07-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  glue          1.7.0       2024-01-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  gt          * 0.11.0.9000 2024-08-21 [1] Github (rstudio/gt@28de628)
#>  htmltools     0.5.8.1     2024-04-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  knitr         1.46        2024-04-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  lifecycle     1.0.4       2023-11-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  magrittr      2.0.3       2022-03-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  pillar        1.9.0       2023-03-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  pkgconfig     2.0.3       2019-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  purrr         1.0.2       2023-08-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  R.cache       0.16.0      2022-07-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  R.methodsS3   1.8.2       2022-06-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  R.oo          1.26.0      2024-01-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  R.utils       2.12.3      2023-11-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  R6            2.5.1       2021-08-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  reprex        2.1.0       2024-01-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  rlang         1.1.3       2024-01-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  rmarkdown     2.26        2024-03-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  rstudioapi    0.16.0      2024-03-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  sessioninfo   1.2.2       2021-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  styler        1.10.3      2024-04-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  tibble        3.2.1       2023-03-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  tidyselect    1.2.1       2024-03-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  utf8          1.2.4       2023-10-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  vctrs         0.6.5       2023-12-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  withr         3.0.0       2024-01-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  xfun          0.43        2024-03-25 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  xml2          1.3.6       2023-12-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#>  yaml          2.3.8       2023-12-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
#> 
#>  [1] C:/Users/steph/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.4
#>  [2] C:/Program Files/R/R-4.4.0/library
#> 
#> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Expected result

In the tex file, I would expect to see the same exact lines as when running in .R.

Session info

End the reproducible example with a call to sessionInfo() in the same session (e.g. reprex(session_info = TRUE)) and include the output.

[szimmer]

Noted to add this doesn't get removed in Rmd.

[olivroy]

Does the following work as expected?

---
title: "gt latex examp"
format: 
  pdf:
    keep-tex: true
    header-includes:
      - \usepackage{booktabs}
      - \usepackage{caption}
      - \usepackage{longtable}
      - \usepackage{colortbl}
      - \usepackage{array}
      - \usepackage{anyfontsize}
      - \usepackage{multirow}
---

## Example code

```{r}
#| label: make-table

library(gt)

# Modify the `airquality` dataset by adding the year
# of the measurements (1973) and limiting to 10 rows
airquality_m <- 
  airquality |>
  dplyr::mutate(Year = 1973L) |>
  dplyr::slice(1:10)
  
# Create a display table using the `airquality`
# dataset; arrange columns into groups
gt_tbl <- 
  gt(airquality_m) 

```

```{r}
#| label: tbl-print
#| tbl-pos: "h!"
gt_tbl
```

[szimmer]

Does the following work as expected?

---
title: "gt latex examp"
format: 
  pdf:
    keep-tex: true
    header-includes:
      - \usepackage{booktabs}
      - \usepackage{caption}
      - \usepackage{longtable}
      - \usepackage{colortbl}
      - \usepackage{array}
      - \usepackage{anyfontsize}
      - \usepackage{multirow}
---

## Example code

```{r}
#| label: make-table

library(gt)

# Modify the `airquality` dataset by adding the year
# of the measurements (1973) and limiting to 10 rows
airquality_m <- 
  airquality |>
  dplyr::mutate(Year = 1973L) |>
  dplyr::slice(1:10)
  
# Create a display table using the `airquality`
# dataset; arrange columns into groups
gt_tbl <- 
  gt(airquality_m) 

#| label: tabprint
#| tbl-pos: "h!"
gt_tbl

Unfortunately, this doesn't work. The position parameter is not in the tex file.

[nielsbock]

latex.tbl.pos is disabled in Quarto so it's not conflicting with the tbl-pos chunk option. The issue here is that table labels in Quarto should start with the prefix tbl-. This should preserve the latex table position in the .tex file in your first example:

#| label: tbl-tabprint
#| tbl-pos: h!
#| results: asis
gt_tbl |>
  as_latex()