[R] rmarkdown and font size

[Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)]

You can change the style, modifying a variety of things.  E.g,

---
title: Test
---

<style type="text/css">

body{ /* Normal  */
      font-size: 12px;
  }
td {  /* Table  */
  font-size: 8px;
}
h1.title {
  font-size: 38px;
  color: DarkRed;
}
h1 { /* Header 1 */
  font-size: 28px;
  color: DarkBlue;
}
h2 { /* Header 2 */
    font-size: 22px;
  color: DarkBlue;
}
h3 { /* Header 3 */
  font-size: 18px;
  font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
  color: DarkBlue;
}
code.r{ /* Code block */
    font-size: 12px;
}
pre { /* Code block - determines code spacing between lines */
    font-size: 14px;
}
</style>

Here is some normal text.  It is a 12-point font.  The table is in 8-point . 
  
```{r example, echo=FALSE, results='asis'}
tmp <- data.frame(a=1:5, b=letters[1:5])
print( knitr::kable(tmp, row.names=FALSE))
```


Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel Nordlund, PhD
Research and Data Analysis Division
Services & Enterprise Support Administration
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services


> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
> MacQueen, Don
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 4:58 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] rmarkdown and font size
> 
> Suppose I have a file (named "tmp.rmd") containing:
> 
> 
> ---
> title: Test
> ---
> 
> ```{r example, echo=FALSE, results='asis'}
> tmp <- data.frame(a=1:5, b=letters[1:5])
> print( knitr::kable(tmp, row.names=FALSE))
> ```
> 
> 
> 
> And I render it with:
> 
> rmarkdown::render('tmp.rmd',
> output_format=c('html_document','pdf_document'))
> 
> I get two files:
>   tmp.pdf
>   tmp.html
> 
> Is there a way to control (change or specify) the font size of the table in the
> pdf output?
> (or of the entire document, if it can't be changed for just the table)
> 
> With my actual data, the table is too wide to fit on a page in the pdf output;
> perhaps if I reduce the font size I can get it to fit.
> 
> I would like the html version to still look decent, but I don't care very much
> what happens to its font size.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Don
> 
> --
> Don MacQueen
> 
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> 7000 East Ave., L-627
> Livermore, CA 94550
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> 
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