If you do not want to split the table into multiple parts based on its width, you can specify that directly in split.tables
parameter with pandoc.table
or more generally in table.split.table
in panderOptions
. E.g.:
> pandoc.table(head(iris), split.table = Inf)
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Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
-------------- ------------- -------------- ------------- ---------
5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa
4.9 3 1.4 0.2 setosa
4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa
4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa
5 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa
5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
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> panderOptions('table.split.table', 300)
> pander(head(iris))
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Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
-------------- ------------- -------------- ------------- ---------
5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa
4.9 3 1.4 0.2 setosa
4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa
4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa
5 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa
5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
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About fontsize: Pandoc's markdown do not have any special syntax for that, so you might use LaTeX markup for your pdf. E.g. just issue a \footnotesize
directive before your table. See possible font sizes for more details: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Fonts#Sizing_text