How to suppress automatic table name and number in an .Rmd file using xtable or knitr::kable?

Question

I\'d like to name my tables from R scripts without the automatic Table 1:... prefix when using xtable() or knitr::kable() in an .Rmd f

Answer 1

In case you also want figures the same way, modify the example by vestland to

---
title: "Suppress automatic table name and number"
output: pdf_document
header-includes:
    - \usepackage[labelformat=empty]{caption}
---

and skip the \captionsetup{}.