Remove line break in Markdown output

Question

I want to print the content of a data.table to a Markdown document out of R-Studio. However, the ouput is somewhat wider, so I decreased the font, as described here: Code chunk font size in Rmarkdown with knitr and latex

However, even when decreasing the font to tiny, the line break remains although there is plenty of space to have the columns adjacent. I wonder how this can be achieved.

---
title: "mwe"
output: pdf_document
---

```
{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(data.table)
dat <- data.table(id=1:5,num=31:35,text=c("a","b","c","d","here you can find some long text to artificially widen this text column and demonstrate the problem"))
```
Here is some text.

\tiny
```{r}
dat

```

dat[5]

What is your question? Do you want all the columns in the same rows? I don't understand what is your desired output. — Daniel_j_iii, Oct 06 '20 at 14:57
Why are you adding the "here you can find some long text to artificially widen this text column and demonstrate the problem"? I guess I don't understand why you are adding extra text just to show a problem, unless you can show a real use case when it's actually a problem. — Daniel_j_iii, Oct 06 '20 at 15:02
This is an example. My real problem has a column with text that long and I would like to print it. — bumblebee, Oct 06 '20 at 15:03
okay, thank you. Maybe you could just make another output specifically for this observation with it's text. — Daniel_j_iii, Oct 06 '20 at 15:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '20 at 09:03

Check ?options and look for the parameter width that controls the number of columns printed per line:

---
title: "mwe"
output: pdf_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
library(data.table)
dat <- data.table(id=1:5,num=31:35,text=c("a","b","c","d","here you can find some long text to artificially widen this text column and demonstrate the problem"))
```

\tiny
```{r}
dat
```

```{r}
options(width = 120)
dat
```

Remove line break in Markdown output

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