Merge pull request #226 from FredHutch/flextable-tex-bugfix

latex template fix to allow flextable to render tables
FredHutch · Aug 12, 2024 · ebb9496 · ebb9496
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diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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 Bug fixes
 * Provide default CRAN mirror if missing in install_load_cran_packages(), e.g., in a child R session during knitting. Fixes 'trying to use CRAN without setting a mirror' error (#218)
+* Update template.tex so that flextable package can be used to create tables in PDF documents (#226)
 
 Other improvements
 * create_visc_project() now discards README.Rmd after knitting template to README.md (#223)

diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_report/resources/template.tex b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/visc_report/resources/template.tex
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
 \usepackage{threeparttable} % provides a scheme for tables that have a structured (foot)note section, after the caption
 \usepackage{threeparttablex} % provides the functionality of the threeparttable package to tables created using the longtable package
 
+% needed for flextable to work
+\usepackage{hhline}
+\newlength\Oldarrayrulewidth
+\newlength\Oldtabcolsep
+
 % being able to set emphasis for entire table row
 \newcommand\setrow[1]{\gdef\rowmac{#1}#1\ignorespaces}
 \newcommand\clearrow{\global\let\rowmac\relax}