Multi-row cells in Rmarkdown table?

Question

I'd like to add a table to an Rmarkdown document that contains a configuration like this:

But none of the four standard methods of creating tables in Rmarkdown in html mode seem to support cells that span multiple rows or columns. Is there some workaround I can use to include multirow cells like this in my tables?

Note that this is different than Multiple lines in a single cell for rmarkdown table , as I'm not looking to put multiple lines in a cell, I'm looking to make a cell that spans multiple rows.

Answer 1

If Rmarkdown is like markdown, you can (and I think is the only way to do it) insert the table creation code directly in HTML, something like:

<table>
  <TR>
       <TD ROWSPAN="4">Type</TD>
       <TD COLSPAN="1">data-1</TD>
     </TR>
     <TR>
          <TD>data-2</TD>
     </TR>
     <TR>
          <TD>data-3</TD>
     </TR>
     <TR>
          <TD>data-4</TD>
     </TR>
</table>