Width of R code chunk output in RMarkdown files knitr-ed to html

Question

Question:

What is the current working solution to set the width of r code output in html files? I would like to set width to something big and use a slider in the

Answer 1

You could reset width and max-width using custom CSS e.g. like this:

---
title: "Width test"
output:
  html_document:
    theme: default
---


```{r global_options, echo = FALSE, include = FALSE}
options(width = 999)
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE, warning = FALSE, message = FALSE,
                      cache = FALSE, tidy = FALSE, size = "small")

```{r}
sessionInfo()
```
```{r}
dataM <- matrix(rnorm(100, 5, 2), ncol = 15)
dataM
```