How to format kable table when knit from .rmd to Word (with bookdown)

Question

I have read the bookdown book and still cannot figure this out. I am trying to create a Word report through bookdown. I want to use kableExtra to

Answer 1

Pandoc

The conversion to word is made via pandoc. Currently pandoc only creates four type of tables,

• simple tables
• multiline_tables
• grid_tables
• pipe_tables

Some of those supported formats are demontrated in pander and in the pandoc manual p 35-39.

So you cannot create the stripped table currently with pandoc.

You also have a good summary of how you can use tables in rmarkdown.rstudio.

Pandoc v2

see the good news from David below