Gt: Rendering latex issue/Duplicated `amsmath`

[sammo3182]

I'm using the latest version of gt (0.1.0) from this repo in a bookdown file. The latex packages attached by utils_render_latex.R from gt lead to duplicate amsmath in the tex file and fail to compile through xelatex. See the example following:

````

title: "Example"
output:
bookdown::pdf_document2:
fig_caption: yes
keep_tex: yes
toc: FALSE

latex_engine: xelatex

{r} library(dplyr) library(gt) mtcars[1:3, 1:3] %>% gt %>% as_latex
````

Given this case, it may be helpful if there could be an option for customizing the engaged packages---at least amsmath.

[rich-iannone]

Thanks for submitting this issue and sorry that this has caused problems. I just read through all the comments in the gtsummary repo and I think I know what's going on. We will get to this soon.

[sammo3182]

Hi @rich-iannone, any follow-up on this issue? Right now, I have to manually change the latex file or replacing all my gt and gtsummary codes with other package::functions. I'll appreciate it so very much if this issue can be fixed soon. Thank you!

[gadenbuie]

I run into this issue frequently as well. If it would be at all possible to provide an escape hatch around the packages declared in https://github.com/rstudio/gt/blob/876b862bb74f450991840946fde61face00c6cc4/R/utils_render_latex.R#L2-L5 I wouldn't mind having to manually declare gt's dependencies if I could avoid this issue. I frequently use xelatex with rmarkdown::pdf_document() and the amsmath issue breaks this workflow.

Btw, the change came in 876b862bb74f450991840946f so for the time being, when this issue is critical, I'm using gt at 51a812ba6a10769bd24.

[andrewheiss]

Just ran into this as well. Installing at 51a812b works fine, but newer things like cell_fill() and cell_text() won't work for now, since they were added after (so temporarily going back to cells_styles())

[rlbarter]

I'm running into this issue with reference to bookdown and gt being used in conjunction. The additional amsmath package yields the error:

! Package mathspec Error:amsmath' must be loaded earlier than mathspec'.

Like others, installing at https://github.com/rstudio/gt/commit/51a812ba6a10769bd24e01c82a3e1b7de44a5a40 is a temporary workaround, but means I can't use cols_width() and the like.

[rappster]

Just ran into the same issue as described by @rlbarter. Are there any updates regarding progress on this?