Center align too wide table in rmarkdown latex

Question

I have a table that is too wide and is therefore spilling into the right margin.

I found this on tex exchange which gives the latex solution using \makebox .

As I am not an expert in latex and my table is a longtable I was unable to implement that even in latex.

My preference is for a solution in rmarkdown itself. I am using kable if that makes any difference.

Posting through mobile so couldn't add an example.

Answer 1

The most basic solution for kableExtra is:

```{r table, echo=FALSE, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE}
library(gt) #dataset gtcars is here
library(kableExtra)
dt <- head(gtcars)

dt %>%
  kbl() %>%
  kable_styling(latex_options = c("scale_down", "hold_position"))
```

You can also use \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{ ***table is here*** } but fontsize is also affected.

If you want additionaly control the fontsize, look there