How to set the language in a html document via r markdown html

Question

I am using a .Rmd documment and rendering to html_document. The prefix of my tables come as "Table", however, I want it in my first language. As in pdf_document, I want to set the language of my report to portuguese, like this:

---
title: "Code"
author: "Guilherme"
date: "May 9, 2017" 
lang: "pt-br"
output:
  html_document: default
---

Is there a way to do that?

How do you add your table prefix? your YAML front matter doesn't produce any. — scoa, May 09 '17 at 13:56
If you use bookdown to get your table/fig references, then internationalization is shown on this page: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/internationalization.html — Sébastien Rochette, May 09 '17 at 13:59
Hy @scoa, I use this command `options(table_counter = TRUE, width = 10000)` in my report, which counts which table is. The command that I use to generate the table itfself is `htmlTable(..., caption="Descriptive Measuraments of...")`. It creates the caption: Table1: Descriptive Measuraments of.... — Guilherme Parreira, May 09 '17 at 14:43

Guilherme Parreira · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-27T18:29:45.407

If I knit:

---
title: "Code"
author: "Guilherme"
date: "May 9, 2017" 
lang: "pt-br"
output:
  bookdown::html_document2
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

```{r cars}
library(knitr)
kable(mtcars[1:5,2:3], caption = "Azul")
```

with a file called _bookdown.yml in the same directory with this content:

language:
  label:
    fig: "Figura "
    tab: "Tabela "

it produces the labeling correctly, as @Sébastian suggested in the comments

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 09 '17 at 16:55

There is no way to do this with the htmlTable package because the "Table no" bit is hardcoded into this package (see the source code).

If you want localization, thus, you'll need to use another way to produce captions. An alternative is the captioner package.

```{r}
library(htmlTable)
library(captioner)

table_nums <- captioner(prefix = "Tabela") # from google translate :)

htmlTable(table(iris$Species,iris$Species), 
          caption = table_nums("desc_iris", "Descriptive Measuraments of..."))
```

How to set the language in a html document via r markdown html

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