I am trying to create a table output formatting that matches the style of Jira tables. Jira uses pipes like in the knitr::kable(format = "pipe") output but differs with regards to the column headers. Here is an example of my current table format using the knitr package:
data("BOD")
BOD %>% tibble::tibble() %>%
head(n = 10) %>%
knitr::kable(format = "pipe")
> | Time| demand|
|----:|------:|
| 1| 8.3|
| 2| 10.3|
| 3| 19.0|
| 4| 16.0|
| 5| 15.6|
| 7| 19.8|
Instead of using a line to separate the headers from the column content, Jira has a slightly different switch syntax:
|| Time|| demand||
| 1| 8.3|
| 2| 10.3|
| 3| 19.0|
| 4| 16.0|
| 5| 15.6|
| 7| 19.8|
Currently, I am removing the ›separation row‹ and modifying the first row:
BOD %>% tibble::tibble() %>%
head(n = 10) %>%
knitr::kable(format = "pipe") -> tmp
tmp <- tmp[-2]
tmp[1] <- stringr::str_replace_all(tmp[1], pattern = "\\|", replacement = "||")
tmp %>% writeClipboard() # Paste into Jira
# Output:
|| Time|| demand||
| 1| 8.3|
| 2| 10.3|
| 3| 19.0|
| 4| 16.0|
| 5| 15.6|
| 7| 19.8|
Is there a way to customise the kable() output in order to achieve Jira compatibility?
