Strange footer behavior in GT tables in loops with RMarkdown

[jcanistrum]

In the example below, the same GT table displays the footnote differently when inside and outside of a loop.

---

title: "Report"

output:
html_document: default

---

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)

#bibliotecas usadas
library(tidyverse)
library(gt)

   head(mtcars) %>% gt() %>% tab_footnote("footnote blah blah", locations=cells_title())

\
\

for( i in 1:3)
{
  cat("\n### Some Header H3\n")
  cat("blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blahblah blah blah.\n\n")
  
  print(
      head(mtcars) %>% gt() %>% tab_footnote("footnote blah blah", locations=cells_title())
  )
  
}
   

[ddsjoberg]

I came to report the same issue. Here's another example of the formatting issue for the footnotes when printed within a loop: https://rpubs.com/ddsjoberg/688904

Thank you! 🍁

[rich-iannone]

With the latest version of gt, this doesn't work at all. I don't think we'll support this usage because fixing it will probably increase the risk of other problems.