According to this question/answer: gridExtra Colour different rows with tableGrob, gridExtra does not have the ability to highlight specific rows in the grid.table.
What then can be done to plot a table with specific row highlighting. Is there a better table package on CRAN?
Is the only solution to build the table up from its component rectangles, lines and labels?
Edit:
The output needs to be an image. I am using rmarkdown
and html/TeX rendering of markdown tables are inconsistent, and TeX tables are usually too big for good beamer slides, plus you can't control the size (except using \tiny
etc). I'm not at liberty to alter the beamer default file, and so the only real work around is to do tables as images, then you can specify the size etc.