lt: Lightweight Tables via JSON Specs and JavaScript
A lightweight grammar of tables. Build a table by declaring a JSON
spec (titles, spanners, row groups, footnotes, formatting functions, etc.); a tiny
vanilla JavaScript runtime builds the HTML table from the spec on page
load. Cells can hold inline plots (error bars, dot plots, mini line and bar charts) drawn
as SVG in the browser from the numbers alone. Tables can optionally be made
interactive (sorting, searching, filtering, pagination, column hiding,
expandable row detail, and CSV download) via a separate extension loaded
only when requested. No 'sass', no 'V8', no 'htmlwidgets' — just base
R and 'xfun' ('htmltools' is used only for the optional Shiny binding and
for embedding tables in other HTML output).
| Version: |
0.5 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: |
grDevices, xfun (≥ 0.62) |
| Suggests: |
chromote, htmltools, knitr, litedown, magick, repr, shiny, testit |
| Published: |
2026-10-17 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.lt |
| Author: |
Yihui Xie  [aut,
cre, cph] (URL: https://yihui.org) |
| Maintainer: |
Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/yihui/lt/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/yihui/lt |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
lt results [issues need fixing before 2026-11-07] |
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