How to render LaTeX / HTML in Jupyter (R)?

Question

I just started using Jupyter with R, and I\'m wondering if there\'s a good way to display HTML or LaTeX output.

Here\'s some example code that I wish worked:

Answer 1

Defining the following function in the session will display objects returned by xtable as html generated by xtable:

repr_html.xtable <- function(obj, ...){
    paste(capture.output(print(obj, type = 'html')), collapse="", sep="")
}

library(xtable)
data(cars)
model <- lm(speed ~ ., data = cars)
xtable(model)

Without the repr_html.xtable function, because the returned object is also of class data.frame, the display system in the kernel will rich display that object (=html table) via repr::repr_html.data.frame.

Just don't print(...) the object :-)