RMarkdown kable vertically align cells

Question

I am authoring a report using RMarkdown, and using kable and kableExtra to format and print the table. Here is what I want would look like the table to look like (made in Wo

Answer 1

This can be easily achieved in HTML by adding the extra_css argument. (for those who are searching for a similar solution in HTML and are only finding this post)

column_spec(1,extra_css = "vertical- align:middle;")