Get rid of \addlinespace in kable

Question

In a knitr/Sweave report, the kable function of knitr with the option booktabs=TRUE adds a \\addlinespace each fifth line

Answer 1

You can add the argument linesep = "" to kable. This will be passed on to kable_latex where it overwrites the default

linesep = if (booktabs) c('', '', '', '', '\\addlinespace') else '\\hline'

Example:

kable(cars, format = "latex", booktabs = TRUE, linesep = "")