The lt Package: Lightweight HTML Tables for R (and Beyond)

Recently I have released a new package on CRAN: lt , short for lightweight tables (or less than ). Its origin story is a small moment of shock. About two years ago a project required gt , so I ran install.packages('gt') in a fresh R session on Linux &mdash; and then watched R install one package after another after another, as if it were going to install half of CRAN. Some of them had to be…