Table placement with stargazer and knitr

Question

I have a knitr document with a table of regression results as output by stargazer, like so:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}

<<setup, echo = FALSE, results= 'hide', message = FALSE>>=
data(mtcars)
library(stargazer)
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<<echo=FALSE, results='asis', comment=NA>>=
model1 <- lm(mpg ~ gear, data=mtcars)
stargazer(model1)
@
\end{document}

How do I influence the placement of this table within the document or, in other words, how do I pass a position specifier to the tabular environment stargazer generates? I've looked through the manual but came up empty.

Answer 1

Starting with version 4.0 (available on CRAN now), you can easily adjust the table placement by using the table.placement argument.

Answer 2

One way of going about this is by replacing the placement argument using regular expressions.

If you check the stargazer output, you will notice that the default is

[4] "\\begin{table}[htb] \\centering " 

You can find htb and replace it with your argument. Here's one way

x <- stargazer(model1)
gsub("\\[htb\\]", "[h]", x)
 [4] "\\begin{table}[h] \\centering "