Formatting Tables in Htmltables for R

Question

How can you easily change the column width in an htmltable in R. I am using the htmltable package.

Any help would be appreciated

htmlTable(DataFrame, align = "c",
      rnames = FALSE,
      caption = "<b> <center> <font face = Times New Roman> Table 1.  Population By Territory  <br> <br>",
      tfoot = "<b> Source </b> <br> [1]  Random Data Source",
      header = paste(c(" Territory", "Number of People")),
      css.caption = "color:red;",
      col.rgroup = c("none", "#ADADAD"),
      padding.tspanner = "", ctable = TRUE,
      css.cell = "<td width = 110px>",

)

Answer 1

The bug in the code is primarily the css.cell argument, this is html code and not cascade-style as expected. What you probably wanted to do was:

htmlTable(DataFrame, align = "c",
      rnames = FALSE,
      caption = "<b> <center> <font face = Times New Roman> Table 1.  Population By Territory  <br> <br>",
      tfoot = "<b> Source </b> <br> [1]  Random Data Source",
      header = paste(c(" Territory", "Number of People")),
      css.caption = "color:red;",
      col.rgroup = c("none", "#ADADAD"),
      padding.tspanner = "", ctable = TRUE,
      css.cell = "width: 110px", # <-- drop the "td" stuff, this all goes into the style="" for the element
)