v0.7.0

New features

• We can now export gt tables as Word documents. This is thanks to @thebioengineer (Ellis Hughes!) who not only made this type of output work through gtsave() (writes the .docx file) but also through as_word() (gives you an OOXML string) (#121, #929). (#962, #986, #1016)

• A whole new family of vector formatting functions (of the form vec_fmt_*()) has entered the package! After all, why should columns have all the formatting fun? If you have vectors in need of formatting, we have 14 of these functions, adapted from their corresponding fmt_*() functions. You can control the output style of the resulting character vector with the output argument. This can either be "auto" (the default), "plain", "html", "latex", "rtf", or "word". In knitr rendering (i.e., Quarto or R Markdown), the "auto" option will choose the correct output value; this is great for incorporating formatted values in inline text. (#899, #995)

• It's now incredibly easy to have colorful and stylish tables thanks to the new opt_stylize() function. We provide you with a carefully curated set of background colors, line colors, and line styles. There are six styles and six color variations, giving you 36 combinations of style and color to choose from (#238). (#987)

• The tab_stub_indent() function was added to allow for fine control over row label indentation. (#999, #1002)

• The fmt_duration() function is now available for formatting values to time durations whether those input values are numbers or of the difftime class. It provides a wide array of options so you can get the formatting of time duration values just right (#403). (#916)

• Generating PNG files from gt tables using gtsave() is now way better due to the move away from webshot to its sequel package webshot2 (#621, #885). (#985)

• A number of accessibility enhancements for HTML table outputs were undertaken to make gt one of the most accessible table packages around (#678, #679, #680). (#977, #978, #979, #981; thank you, @jooyoungseo, for all of this)

• Errors and warnings, though we don't often like to receive them, look much better now since we've integrated the cli package into gt! (#963)

Minor improvements and bug fixes

• We can now supply data from adjacent columns to user-supplied aggregation functions in summary_rows() and grand_summary_rows() (#383, #690, #952). (#1018)

• Initial alignments in the table stub are now more intelligently determined in gt() by examining the content of the column (the "rowname_col") that will comprise the stub. If values are predominantly number-like then a right alignment will be chosen, otherwise row labels will be left aligned. (#999)

• Enhanced automatic column alignment (set to "auto" by default in the gt() function) by probing the contents of the columns. This ensures that string-based dates/times/datetimes receive a better appearance before formatting. (#997)

• gt tables no longer break table numbering in R Markdown and Quarto documents. (#1003, thanks @cscheid!)

• The as_latex() documentation was updated to provide guidance on necessary LaTeX dependencies. (#1022, thanks @coatless!)

• Fixed a bug where footnote marks would not be rendered in the stub column representing row groups (#1001). (#1014)

• Using gtsave() in a Quarto or R Markdown code chunk will no longer generate any output, which is good since we don't want any (#974). (#1011)

• Fixed an issue where footnote marks would not be set directly to cell text generated from fmt_markdown() (#893, #993). (#1013)

• All testthat tests have been migrated to the 3rd Edition of testthat. Also, the tests run much faster now. (#959)