Add a source note citation

Add a source note to the footer part of the gt table. A source note is useful for citing the data included in the table. Several can be added to the footer, simply use multiple calls of tab_source_note() and they will be inserted in the order provided. We can use Markdown formatting for the note, or, if the table is intended for HTML output, we can include HTML formatting.

Usage

tab_source_note(data, source_note)

Arguments

data

The gt table data object

obj:<gt_tbl> // required

This is the gt table object that is commonly created through use of the gt() function.

source_note

Source note text

scalar<character> // required

Text to be used in the source note. We can optionally use the md() and html() functions to style the text as Markdown or to retain HTML elements in the text.

Value

An object of class gt_tbl.

Examples

With three columns from the gtcars dataset, let's create a gt table. We can use the tab_source_note() function to add a source note to the table footer. Here we are citing the data source but this function can be used for any text you'd prefer to display in the footer section.

gtcars |>
  dplyr::select(mfr, model, msrp) |>
  dplyr::slice(1:5) |>
  gt() |>
  tab_source_note(source_note = "From edmunds.com")

Function ID

2-8

Function Introduced

v0.2.0.5 (March 31, 2020)

See also

Other part creation/modification functions: tab_caption(), tab_footnote(), tab_header(), tab_info(), tab_options(), tab_row_group(), tab_spanner_delim(), tab_spanner(), tab_stub_indent(), tab_stubhead(), tab_style_body(), tab_style()