Save knitr::kable() output to html file R

Question

I have a knitr_kable output that I want to save as an HTML document from R. I need this to run automatically from my R script with no human involvement. For example:

dt <- mtcars[1:5, 1:6]
kable(dt, "html") %>% kable_styling(bootstrap_options = c("striped", "hover"))

This has html output but the class is knitr_kable so I can't write it to a table or html file because it cannot be coerced to a dataframe.

class(kable(dt, "html"))
[1] "knitr_kable"

Does anyone have a method for saving one of these kables as an html file?

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I've tried:

library(xml2)
options(knitr.table.format = "html") 
write_html(kable(dt, "html"), "df.html")))

This has error:

Error in UseMethod("write_html") : no applicable method for 'write_html' applied to an object of class "knitr_kable"

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My guess would be that the knitr_kable object must first be coerced to an html object and then saved as html file. But I'm not sure how to do that.

Answer 1

The cat function will do what you need.

library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)
library(magrittr)

dt <- mtcars[1:5, 1:6]

kable(dt, "html") %>%
  kable_styling(bootstrap_options = c("striped", "hover")) %>%
  cat(., file = "df.html")

The resulting table looks like this: