R Programming By Example

Tables

Tables are one of the most cumbersome structures to create when using Markdown. Having said that, it's still not hard to create them. If you align them, everything looks normal. However, most of the time, people don't align them, and they seem a bit odd if you're not used to the syntax. By non-aligned tables, we mean that there are no padding spaces after items so that vertical lines align. The table shown as follows is an aligned table.

If we use the following input:

| First column | Second column | Third column |
|--------------|---------------|--------------|
| Item one     | Item two      | Item three   |
| Item four    | Item five     | Item six     |
| Item seven   | Item eight    | Item nine    |

We get the following output:

First column

Second column ...