Quarto -- Data Frame Printing

[AndyZ]

I have recently found some time to start exploring Quarto. Pretty great! One feature that I used in my RMD files was the df_print: paged YAML option in HTML documents. This doesn't seem to work yet in Quarto. Is there a work around? Or maybe there is a YAML variation that I missed in the documentation?

[cderv]

I don't think this is something ported on Quarto yet to be able to change all data.frame printing using df_print. You should ask Quarto related question in quarto-dev/quarto-cli · Discussions · GitHub to that we can discuss this and track as possible feature request.

Possibly this is something we could make possible in knitr maybe

For now, as with any table function, you need to call it directly in the chunk on the data.frame you want

---
title: "test"
---

```{r}
rmarkdown::paged_table(head(mtcars))
```

[DeBruine]

You can set custom knitr_print functions for data.frame objects. I wrote a demo gist and there are more details in this vignette.

If you just want all data frames to print as paged, add this code:

library(knitr)

knit_print.data.frame <- function (x, options, ...) {
  rmarkdown::paged_table(x, options) |>
    rmarkdown:::print.paged_df()
}

registerS3method("knit_print", "data.frame", knit_print.data.frame)

[cderv]

For using with R, Quarto has now a df-print option you can set in YAML:

Quarto - Using R

So you can now set kable as default printing option now