Consider using the gt package

[mbcann01]

Overview

I was looking through the gt package documentation last night. Perhaps we should consider using this package for the tables instead of flextable.

[edambo]

Why do you want to move from flextables? Is there some functionality you're interested in? According to this (if I'm understanding it correctly), gt doesn't support Word and the default output to Word will be a flextable anyway.

[mbcann01]

Great question, @edambo ! For starters, I know we have higher priorities right now than this. So, it's totally fine if we don't get around to it for awhile.

When we were using the DT package to create tables, I didn't love the way they looked, but I did like how they could scroll. Some of the flextables look more squished to me than I would like in an ideal world. Having said that, if we want the ability to export them to word, I guess we can't rely on scrolling. Also, I didn't realize the GT package wouldn't create word tables. This might be a dead end. I just came across the package in a blog post and thought it looked interesting. I didn't dig into it very far.