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How to change the language of gt html tables in quarto

I want to change the language or the input placeholder in the search bar and the pagination buttons of an interactive table created with the {gt} package within a quarto website.

REPREX

library(gt)

mtcars |>
  gt() |>
  opt_interactive(use_search = TRUE, use_pagination = TRUE)
Solution

  • You can set the locale with gt(..., locale = xx-XX), where xx-XX is one of the available locales found with info_locale().

    Edit: to set a give locale for all calls to gt in the document, here's a (sort of hackish) way to redefine gt for the session:

    gt_orig <- gt
gt <- \(...) do.call(gt_orig, c(locale = 'xx-XX', list(...)))

    restore with gt <- gt_orig