Markdown PDF and stargazer resizing table

[bjoernboening]

Might be a little late, but nevertheless is driving me nuts.

Whenever I add a stargazer regression table to the markdown (knit as pdf), I only get one long column.

Is there a way to fit the table to the page?

Several forums suggest, that this issue remains untackled by the developers, might this be true, or did someone find a solution?

Thanks in advance.

[LarsMehwald]

Dear Björn,
I dont have a solution, but an idea - in case you know how to do it with LaTeX (which I dont):
You can save the LaTeX output of stargazer and manually manipulate it (with LaTeX code that does what you want). The code is explained here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33543159/how-to-align-stargazer-table-to-the-left-when-type-latex
Hope that helps,
Lars

[christophergandrud]

Is this related to having many variables in your model? If so you can omit certain variables from the table to focus on key ones using the omit argument to stargazer.

[Mark-Bergn]

I've had the same issue, best work around I found was to generate the stargazer output outside of Rmarkdown then copy and paste it into the markdown body and add the latex commands "\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{ %% " and "} %resizebox" to fit the output to page.

i.e....

Example Stargazer Output:

\begin{table}[!htbp] \centering
\caption{}
\label{}
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{ %%
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{5pt}}lc}
\[-1.8ex]\hline
\hline \[-1.8ex]
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textit{Dependent variable:}} \
\cline{2-2}
\[-1.8ex] & y \
\hline \[-1.8ex]
x & $-$1.587 \
& (2.701) \
& \
Constant & 50.500$^{}$ \
& (2.911) \
& \
\hline \[-1.8ex]
Observations & 100 \
\hline
\hline \[-1.8ex]
\textit{Note:} & \multicolumn{1}{r}{$^{}$p$<$0.1; $^{}$p$<$0.05; $^{***}$p$<$0.01} \
\end{tabular}
} %resizebox
\end{table}

This solution comes from- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16507191/automatically-adjust-latex-table-width-to-fit-pdf-using-knitr-and-rstudio